Duncan Jones Quotes

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

I grew up reading science fiction.

There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I like sci-fi.

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

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.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

I love science fiction films.

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

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