Nicolas Cage Quotes

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

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.

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.

What I've found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That's what 'Doctor Who' does, even if it's a bit silly some other times.

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

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.

The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

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

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically different from our own.

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

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.

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've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

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

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.

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.