Quotes by Jon Spaihts

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 written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I’ve written was work.

Cutting

Scripts

Teeth

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

Airplane

Looks

Wings

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

Offers

Tantalizing

Vision

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.

Law

Simple

Space

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

Fire

Successful

Writing

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that’s not easy to come by in Hollywood.

Kids

War

Years

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.

Enlightenment

Mean

Stars

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

Deeper

I Can

Lays

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.

College

Math

Writing

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.

Dark

First Love

Journey

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Quotes by Jon Spaihts

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 written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I’ve written was work.

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

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

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that’s not easy to come by in Hollywood.

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.

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

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.

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