I Love The Idea Of Anthropomorphizing Machines.

One Of My Favorite Things About 'star Trek' Wasn't Just The Overt Banter But The Humor In That Show About The Relationships Between The Main Characters And Their Reactions To The Situations They Would Face; There Was A Lot Of Comedy In That Show Without Ever Breaking Its Reality.

Withholding Things In A Story Is No Good If You Aren't Building To Something Substantial. It Becomes Foreplay Without The Main Event, And No One Wants That.

I Was Never Really A Comic-book Fanatic.

'star Wars: Episode Iv - A New Hope' (1977) Is Probably The Most Influential Film Of My Generation. That Work Was The Personification Of Good And Evil And The Way It Opened Up The World To Space Adventure, The Way Westerns Had To Our Parents' Generations, It Left An Indelible Imprint. So, In A Way, Everything That Any Of Us Does Is Somehow Directly Or Indirectly Affected By The Experience Of Seeing Those First Three Films.

If You Watch The First [star Wars] Movie, You Don't Actually Know Exactly What The Empire Is Trying To Do. They're Going To Rule By Fear -- But You Don't Know What Their Endgame Is. You Don't Know What Leia Is Princess Of. You Don't Yet Understand Who Jabba The Hutt Is, Even Though There Is A Reference To Him. You Don't Know That Vader Is Luke's Father, Leia Is His Sister -- But The Possibility Is All There. The Beauty Of That Movie Was That It Was An Unfamiliar World, And Yet You Wanted To See It Expand And To See Where It Went.