Writer

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

I'm not a big fan of visual effects.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.