There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.

Global warming is a scientific fact as much as the hole in the ozone layer or Earth's orbit around the sun.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.