I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we’re looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.