Science Fiction Quotes - Page 4

• I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

  Mayim Bialik

  Book, Fiction, Comic

  "Actress Mayim Bialik On TV, Science, And The Combo". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

  Nicolas Cage

  Avant Garde, Fiction, Fantasy

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• Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

  Nicolas Cage

  Intelligent, Roots, People

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

  Nicolas Cage

  Imagination, Fiction, Way

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• 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

  Nicolas Cage

  Knowing, Needs, Fiction

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

  Martin Rees

  Fun, Fiction, Firsts

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• I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

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• Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, People, Fiction

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

  Neill Blomkamp

  People, Fiction, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

  Michio Kaku

  Sorcery, Heroism, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

  Michio Kaku

  Clueless, Fiction, Today

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• In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

  Michio Kaku

  Scare, Popcorn, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

  Denis Leary

  Fiction, Interest

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Mind, Fiction

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery

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• I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

  Moby

  Fiction, Scientist, Obsessed

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• We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Impact, People, Fiction

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• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Optimistic, The End Of The Day, Cockroaches

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• Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Science, Fiction

  Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.

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• Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

  Tony Visconti

  Science, Years, Today

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• I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Science, Fiction, Mars

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• What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Character, Balance

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• There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Reality, Views, Class

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  Olivia Wilde

  Stars, Together, Fans

  "Olivia Wilde Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 1, 2010.

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