Science Fiction Quotes - Page 5

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men, Texas, Police

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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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• I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

  Kage Baker

  Writing, Technology, Thinking

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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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• I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Gun, Thinking

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

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• If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Meaningful, Looks, Fiction

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 31, 2009.

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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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• 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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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

  Vir Das

  Views, Class, Psychology

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• I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

  Romola Garai

  Fiction, Science Love

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

  Joe Morton

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Stars, Giving, Mind

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• I've always been interested in science fiction

  Martin Landau

  Fiction

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• My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

  Logan Marshall-Green

  Mom, Fiction, My Mom

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• I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

  Marina Sirtis

  Stars, Character, Science

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Writing, Unique, Years

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• Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Knowing, Tolerance

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• In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Dedication, Three

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• Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Tree, Fiction, Fantasy

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