Alex Winter Quotes

I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.

'Aliens' was a brilliant movie, but you still wanted to see the Alien come to Earth.

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

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

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

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.

I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I was really impressed by '2312.'