Science Fiction Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  Gary Oldman

  Space, Fans, Fiction

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• We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, Kids, Air

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• God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Lifetime, Expect Nothing

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• It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

  Natalie Portman

  Character, Fiction, Action

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• I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Fiction, Something Real

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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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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

  John Barrowman

  Years, Different, Fiction

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• Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

  Joel Edgerton

  Hard Work, Thinking, Fiction

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

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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 don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

  William Monahan

  Stars, War, Epic

  Source: collider.com

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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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• The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.

  Philip J. Klass

  Art, Writing, Past

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• Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

  Damon Knight

  Writing, Fiction

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• A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Problem

  "The Man Who Lost the Sea".

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• Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Knowing, People

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• Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Science, Religion

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• I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Would Be

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• Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

  Claudia Christian

  Bisexual, Fiction, Jew

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

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• Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Book, Needs, Fiction

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