Science Fiction Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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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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• Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

  Julian May

  Running, Writing, Race

  Julian May (2013). “A Pliocene Companion”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

  Catherine Asaro

  Military, Rip, Book

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• The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Optical Illusions

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• Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

  Rod Serling

  Fiction, Impossible, Fantasy

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Fiction, Television

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• Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Tree, Fiction, Fantasy

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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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• 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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