The Trick Was Really Finding The Appropriate

What I Do With Everything Is Take Things Out Of Real Life. You Encounter All Sorts Of Stories. It's A Lot Of Your Friends And Family, Sometimes There's Quite Sad Episodes In Their Life And Everything. So Just Little Things I've Picked Up Along The Years Always Find A Way Into All Of My Stories.

I Spent As Much Time Writing Proposals In '98 And '99 As I Did Writing Scripts.

The Ultimate [act] That Would Be The Taboo, To Show How Bad Some Villain Is, Was To Have Somebody Being Raped, You Know? I Don't Really Think It Matters. It's The Same As, Like, A Decapitation. It's Just A Horrible Act To Show That Somebody's A Bad Guy.

The Big Thing Is It's A Domestic Drama. Everything Else In Science Fiction Tends To Be High-concept. Really For The Last 40 Years Or So I Think Sci-fi's Been A Little Cold And A Little Inhuman Quite Often - Certainly Since The 1980s - And I Really Wanted To Do Something That Almost Felt Like A Regular, Real-life Drama But Just Set It In A Sci-fi Setting. I Think The Best Stuff Is Always Like That.

We Ordinary People Might Lack Your Great Speed Or Your X-ray Vision, Superman, But Never Underestimate The Power Of The Human Mind. We Carry The Most Dangerous Weapon On Earth Inside These Thick Skulls Of Ours.