Jonathan Nolan

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.