Jon Spaihts

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I…

— Jon Spaihts

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just…

— Jon Spaihts

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life.…

— Jon Spaihts

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

— Jon Spaihts

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

— Jon Spaihts

You want magic to feel real.

— Jon Spaihts

The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will…

— Jon Spaihts

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've…

— Jon Spaihts

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to…

— Jon Spaihts

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction…

— Jon Spaihts

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

— Jon Spaihts

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

— Jon Spaihts

I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the…

— Jon Spaihts

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

— Jon Spaihts

You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our…

— Jon Spaihts

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

— Jon Spaihts

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

— Jon Spaihts

Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a…

— Jon Spaihts

The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion…

— Jon Spaihts

Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars…

— Jon Spaihts

Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I…

— Jon Spaihts

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

— Jon Spaihts

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you…

— Jon Spaihts

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just…

— Jon Spaihts

I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit…

— Jon Spaihts