Albert Brooks Quotes

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.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

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.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'

I love science fiction films.

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.