[The responsibility is] terrifying. We learned a lot. It’s interesting actually, I had certain issues with “Into Darkness” as well. It’s interesting to be able to take those forward and be at the helm a little bit.

You’re always learning when you’re working with a series of movies because you go okay, what did people like there? What did people not like? What did we like? And that’s a crazy way to work because we’re shooting in summer come hell or high water.

So Doug Jung and I are just sort of hashing out the story and meanwhile people keep coming in and going, “So can we build that? Can we design that now? Can we make that costume? What are you wearing? How many people? How many planets?” You’re like, “I don’t know. Let us try and fucking think of the story.” But that’s how the process is working.

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is our mantra at the moment and it’s bringing out the best of us. It has to. We have to come up with the goods. It’s good because there’s not room to be kind of like, “Yeah we’ll take a break today; we’ll sort that out next week.” It has to happen and we have to write it and it cannot be bad. It has to be good and it has to meet a certain criteria which we set for ourselves.