Beth Grant Quotes

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.

One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.

'Premam' moved me; it was almost like seeing life play out on screen.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.