Forest Whitaker Quotes

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.