Science Fiction Quotes - Page 15

• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

  Dan Simmons

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Would Be, Fiction

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• Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Healthy, Fiction

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• A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.

  Marvin Minsky

  Couple, Powerful, Years

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• With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.

  James Ponsoldt

  Baby, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Fiction, World, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Definitions, Hubris

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• Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

  Brit Marling

  Mean, Fiction, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Children, Fiction, Literature

  Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Fiction, Body, Shapes

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• If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Years, Horror Genre, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take what I'd learned in character drama and try to apply that to the genre that I love, which is science fiction and "The Twilight Zone" type mysteries.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Drama, Twilight, Character

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

  Dana Gould

  Winning, Men, Fiction Novels

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• I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Moon, Special

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• My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Two

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• I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Gay, Light

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  White, Looks, Fiction

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Lifetime, Expect Nothing

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• I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

  James Rollins

  Hands, Shadow, Savages

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• You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

  John Barrowman

  Years, Different, Fiction

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Who I Am, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• Science fiction is an extension of science.

  Len Wiseman

  Fiction, Extensions

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