Matt Groening Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Adults

• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Ideas, Honor

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

• We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

  Matt Groening

  Stars, War, Doctors

• With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

  Matt Groening

  Fiction, Reason Why, Worried

  "'Futurama' ends: The Matt Groening interview, Part 2" by Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. July 24, 2013.

• Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

  Matt Groening

  Fiction, Comedy, Science Fiction

• I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Reading, Kids

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