Drew Roy Quotes

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.

Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

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

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

I have a DVD of 'Lois & Clark,' and I don't know how the special effects hold up, because all the technology's gotten so much better. But the writer - the woman that wrote 'Lois & Clark' - I think those stories were good.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.