Yoko Taro Quotes

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

They have a life-sized Cylon on the 'Caprica' set.

'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.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

One of my favorite sci-fi books is 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. I would recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi. It's a perfect intro to sci-fi.

'Automa' is probably my first sci-fi story. It's not hard sci-fi but more in the 'Terminator 2' vein.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

The day of the android has dawned.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.