I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying. Jon Spaihts More Quotes by Jon Spaihts More Quotes From Jon Spaihts When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. Jon Spaihts projectsterritorycredit Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential. Jon Spaihts spacesimplelaw You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding. Jon Spaihts realfunmen The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain. Jon Spaihts understandingrealroots You want magic to feel real. Jon Spaihts magicrealwant 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. Jon Spaihts cosmosunderstandingwant Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render. Jon Spaihts gravityzerospace Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down. Jon Spaihts zerospacereal An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. Jon Spaihts airplanewingslooks Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learning curve. Some of it is about raising audience literacy to the point where they understand that. Jon Spaihts curvesspacereal Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now. Jon Spaihts visionspacethinking The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns. Jon Spaihts developmentmayworld The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a long time, and in the end, the most extraordinary thing we will find when we get there will be ourselves. Jon Spaihts spacerealitythinking 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. Jon Spaihts enlightenmentstarsmean Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge. Jon Spaihts choiceschallengesworld I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can. Jon Spaihts feel-goodunderstandingtalking I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach. Jon Spaihts perspectivecreativetrying I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey. Jon Spaihts first-lovejourneydark It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect. Jon Spaihts dealstvs For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. Jon Spaihts successfulfirewriting
