Sci-Fi Movies Quotes

A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.

I want more sci-fi movies that aren't $200 million movies that I have to wait for and generally be disappointed with.

I've always liked dark, creepy movies, but for some reason, I started on the film scene with romantic comedies.

'Star Wars' is for nerds and virgins.

Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

Put it this way: If I had to go back to 1968 and wear the makeup that John Chambers made for the original 'Planet of the Apes' series, I think I would rather wear a unitard.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.

I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty feel of the days when the genre's highlight was Flash Gordon.

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.