You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
