J. Michael Straczynski Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Gimmicks, Fiction, Gadgets

  Source: collider.com

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Real, Space, Baptism

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

• I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fans, Fiction, Stories

• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Babylon 5, Chains

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

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Mystery, Shock And Awe

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

• 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

• 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

• 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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