Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
“People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.”
“Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.”