Explain your on-line interview about space being the final frontier.

I've never been a big science fiction buff, to be honest with you. But I�ve really always loved world mythology and fairy tales and things like that because, to me, that�s our human experience. It's our way of describing our experiences in a way that�s more universal, through mythology, through fairy tales, things like that.

Now, in our modern life, we�ve figured out that there is no Little Red Riding Hood or whatever, that there are no Greek gods, that a lot of these myths are just stories. But the one thing that we can�t say for sure is science fiction - is the future. I relate to science fiction more that way, that we can use the unknown, like people did, a thousand years ago, with fairy tales and mythology,. We can use space and that unknown place to find stories and a way of expressing our human experience now. I�m not a scientist, so all those things are interesting to me, but that�s more for the scientists. To me, being more of a creative person and looking at it almost spiritually, is that we can use space and that open frontier as a palette that we use to tell stories and assess our human experience, now.