David Brin Quotes

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

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

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.