Rich Moore Quotes

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

I grew up reading science fiction.

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I love science fiction.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

I like sci-fi.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars', and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life.

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET.

I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.