The Writer Of "Interstellar" Thinks We Need To Leave Earth

BuzzFeed - “It could well be that the agents of our destruction are moments away,” Jonathan Nolan told BuzzFeed News. Paramount Pictures Writer Jonathan Nolan sat on a couch in a room in a fancy Beverly Hills hotel. The man in the elegantly beige Four Seasons suite, who along with his brother, director Christopher Nolan (Inception), wrote the space film Interstellar, was more than 10 stories off the ground, but ideally, he would have been considerably higher. "The first time I was having an argument with someone about space exploration," Nolan told BuzzFeed News, "this person's opinion was, Why the fuck are we wasting all this money going to space when there's still starving people? And as a kid, that blew my fucking mind. Why do those things have to be in conflict with each other? Space is cool, and feeding people is cool. Why can't you do both?" In Nolan's movie — which opens in wide release Nov. 7 — the answer is you can't: Earth is suffering a gen