Gil Gerard Quotes

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

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

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

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!

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

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

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.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I'm not a sci-fi kind of guy, to be honest.

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

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.

I love science fiction films.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'

'Star Wars Rebels' brings back the banter and faster pace that the original films were famous for.