I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction,… — 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 a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share
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
