Annalee Newitz Quotes

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.

'Apocalyptic Love,' that is pretty from the hip in the sense that, one day, Slash and I were talking - I think it was Slash and I - about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar and all that crazy stuff.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

Time for the world to end.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.