Seth Shostak Quotes

The Martians are always coming.

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

… an alien invasion

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

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

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

I was never a fan of sci-fi or space stuff.

Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.

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

Aliens are definitely real.

I think what Stargate has going for it is a sense of humor about their science fiction.

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

Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.