David Goyer Quotations

They're going to be exploiting our cellular phones, our TV signals. They're going to be using our own technology against us. We're going to spotlight how we are really quite vulnerable in ways we hadn't anticipated before.

I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And one of the things that we liked was that people had seen the first hour and thought it had more of a cinematic quality, so we thought we have to find a feature director to do the second hour. Who's available?

We would love for him to come back. He did a great job. He's a really sweet guy, and he had a great experience as well. We would love for him to do more.

In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on society -- what's happening now. It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

Our show is meant to be disturbing and genuinely scary, because I think if something like this did happen, it would be disturbing and scary.

As a viewer, (I) like shows like that. I like shows that have a breadth to them and that you can pick apart and watch again and again. I think that's fun.

I find out Peter Hyams was available, so I just called him and said, 'Can you help us out?' He said OK.

Historically when people have been scared and people have been nervous, there's been an uptick in science-fiction, fantasy and horror. It happened in the '50s with the Red Scare and the Space Race and all of that. And there usually is a correlation between (events and fiction that follows). You're telling allegorical tales and you're shining a light back on society, and it's a way to talk about what's going on but from a sideways angle.

Historically when people have been scared and nervous, there's been an uptick in science fantasy horror. You're telling allegorical tales and shining a light back on society.

It happened in the '50s with the Red Scare and the space race and all of that. And there usually is a correlation between those two. . . . You're telling allegorical tales and you're shining a light back on society, what's happening now, and it's a way to kind of talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.