It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.
Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work. ' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it. '