“I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.” ThinkingFirstsTwoFilmHoursDarkLove IsJourneyFirst LoveSomewhere ElseCompletion Author:Jon Spaihts
“The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.” ThinkingGivingWritingFilmLiteratureFictionReflectionRootsGive MeScience FictionDeeperPool Author:Jon Spaihts
“Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.” ThinkingHas BeensSpaceCompanyVisionInternationalVideoBunchFlightStationsFilmmakingRadarSpace FlightInternational Space Station Author:Jon Spaihts
“The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a long time, and in the end, the most extraordinary thing we will find when we get there will be ourselves.” ThinkingLongEndsHardRealitySpaceMiddleLong TimeExtraordinarySpace TravelExtraordinary Things Author:Jon Spaihts
“I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.” IfsThinkingWorldSpaceDangerPromiseAssumingLifetimeDescendantsSpace Travel Author:Jon Spaihts
