"I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or ..." — James Cameron

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.