I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

You know there was a time just before I started to study physical science when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

As a theoretical physicist I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science the Nobel prize.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I've started a company called Tall Girl Productions and we've got our first project that is purely producing not writing with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC it's called 'Afterthought ' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Mainly I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.