Stephen Lang Quotes

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

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.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

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

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.