David Koepp

But those are fairly crude senses.

So we invented some devices that could help us see other things.

You know, the telescope.

Yes.

All the things we've invented.

That is modern science.

The last hundred years, it's really gone far.

That is modern science.

But who's to say we certainly aren't still perceiving everything that exists around us?

We're perceiving a lot more with the help of our gizmos.

But who is to say these alien life forms don't exist in a form that we can't yet perceive?

I find that as the agnostic's most reasonable explanation for why things exist that I don't understand.

They sit outside of your sensory.

They may well, and not just our sensory, but all the technical equipment that we have to perceive things.

I think we see with Emily's character, when the bird appears, something happens.

They make eye contact.

They make eye contact, which is what it's all about.

And then she starts speaking in Russian in a way that she doesn't understand.

Hey, Maggie, you okay?

I think that notion that something is activated in her somehow or given to her somehow that causes her to have these powers she doesn't even know she is implementing, that she's using.