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Part Of The Fun Of The Movie Is Understanding Exactly Why We Called It Prometheus. And Also, It Sounds Really Pretentious, Like Inception, So We Were Just Like, "yeah, That Makes The Movie Sound Really Smart!" It's So Much Better Then My Original Title, Explosion. Well, There Might Be An Explosion In The Movie.

I Think That At The End Of The Day I'm Drawn To A Certain Level Of Ambiguous Storytelling That Requires Hard Thought And Work In The Same Way That The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Does: Sometimes You Just Want To Put It Down Or Throw It Out The Window, But There's A Real Rewarding Sense If You Feel Like You've Cracked It.

But I Do Think That, When You Slow The Conveyor Belt Down, The Quality Control Tends To Go Up. You Have A Lot More Time Between Seasons To Talk About What Worked And What Didn't Work, And Plan For The Future. And The Pacing Of The Storytelling, Particularly For On-going Serialized Dramas, Means That You Don't Need To Do Non-essential Episodes, Just Because You Have To Fill This Pre-existing Schedule.

People Are Disappointed When The World Doesn't End On Their Watch.

I Feel Like Great Ted Talks Are Ones That Are A Little Bit Subject To Interpretation, That Do Provoke Further Conversation - And Potentially Controversy.