Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.
Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.