Albert Brooks Quotes

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.