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In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.'
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this stuff.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.
One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.