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24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Interstellar: A Science Fiction Movie

The original director of Contact was canned by the studio for taking too long. Zemeckis brought in to finish things off and we want to get into production, he did. And basically all the efforts that were being put into really perfecting the last part of the movie went down the tubes. That's what led to Interstellar. But I had no plan to do that.

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