“It’s really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It’s a really nice way to do it, but it doesn’t happen very often.”

So many people love sci-fi, and they’re so loyal.

With a popular show, you know that there’s expectations there, so that’s a little nerve-wracking when you’re new and you’re just trying to find your legs on something, but it’s exciting, too, because that’s what we work so hard for.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Men die but an idea does not.

You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.