Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I'm a huge 'Vampire Diaries' fan. My sister got me into 'Doctor Who.' Those are my biggest things.

I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.

I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

I'm a wall to wall geek. I love sci fi; I've had a crush on Spider-Man since I was five years old, and there's an uncomfortably large shelf in my living room just for my comics.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world than people want to discuss.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

Growing up, I didn't really read a lot of comics; we didn't really have the money to get them. But I grew up a universal fan of fantasy and sci-fi and watching a lot of TV. There's always this question of 'Are you a fan of sci-fi or fantasy?' But can't you be a fan of both? We love everything fantasy, my wife and I.

I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.

I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

'Star Wars' is for nerds and virgins.

Doctor Who' is such a broad show. It's got the whole universe to explore.

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

I'm a huge 'Dragon Ball Z' fan, so when they were trying to make a live-action movie, I was, like, 'No!'

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.