Latest Jon Spaihts Quotes from Interviews

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• The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate the necessity of taking very good care of this world and being good stewards of it.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Space, Appreciate

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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.

  Jon Spaihts

  Thinking, Space, Promise

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Jon Spaihts

  Choices, Challenges, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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.

  Jon Spaihts

  Reality, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

  Jon Spaihts

  Stars, Mean, Enlightenment

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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.

  Jon Spaihts

  Thinking, Space, Vision

  Source: www.mtv.com

• The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

  Jon Spaihts

  Development, World, May

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Jon Spaihts

  Airplane, Wings, Looks

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learning curve. Some of it is about raising audience literacy to the point where they understand that.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Space, Curves

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.

  Jon Spaihts

  Zero, Real, Space

  Source: www.mtv.com

• You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.

  Jon Spaihts

  Understanding, Cosmos, Want

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

  Jon Spaihts

  Zero, Space, Gravity

  Source: www.mtv.com

• You want magic to feel real.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Magic, Want

  Source: www.mtv.com

• You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding.

  Jon Spaihts

  Fun, Real, Men

  Source: www.mtv.com

• The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Roots, Understanding

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.

  Jon Spaihts

  Simple, Law, Space

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Jon Spaihts

  Perspective, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can.

  Jon Spaihts

  Talking, Feel Good, Understanding

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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 to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, Math, College

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Jon Spaihts

  Deeper, Lays, I Can

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.

  Jon Spaihts

  New York, College, Vocabulary

  Source: collider.com

• 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 my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work.

  Jon Spaihts

  Cutting, Teeth, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• 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 happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

  Jon Spaihts

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jon Spaihts

  Vision, Tantalizing, Offers

  Source: collider.com

• I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.

  Jon Spaihts

  Process

  Source: collider.com