Joseph Kosinski Quotes

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I like sci-fi.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

They have a life-sized Cylon on the 'Caprica' set.

I'm dying to do something sci-fi! I would love to be on a spaceship and firing a laser gun! Something like that would be really awesome. Or something with dinosaurs. Or preferably both at once.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.