Jon Spaihts Quotes
I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.
You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.
I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.
You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.
Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.
I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.
I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.