Michelle Monaghan Quotes

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

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.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

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.

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.

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.

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.

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.

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 some science in my 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 like sci-fi.

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

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

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

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.

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

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

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

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

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