Ivan Reitman Quotes

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

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

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

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

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

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I love science fiction films.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.