Octavia E. Butler Quotes

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really love science. I love knowing about how the world works.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.