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Quotes About Sci-fi

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
~ Corin Nemec
I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.
~ Mekhi Phifer
What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.
~ John Hillcoat
Star Trek?" I asked her. "Really?" "What?" she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. "There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly," I said. "Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking." She sniffed. "This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both." "Blasphemy and lies," I said.
~ Jim Butcher
The Black Hole?" Grey asked, incredulously. "Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one." "Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality.
~ Jim Butcher
I love playing Eleven.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
I used to watch 'Aliens', and I just found Sigourney Weaver's character so empowering.
~ Katie Melua
I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.
~ J. J. Abrams
The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
~ Mark Pellegrino
I did not have a very in-depth knowledge of 'Star Trek'. I'd seen a couple of the vintage episodes. I knew just about as much as anyone on the street.
~ Cristin Milioti
like Daleks in Dr Who.
~ Unknown
Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.
~ James A. Moore
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
~ Rian Johnson
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
~ John Scalzi
I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.
~ Christina Ricci
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.
~ Karl Urban
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
~ Scott Bakula
I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.
~ Virginia Madsen
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.
~ Karen Russell
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
~ Benjamin Percy
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
~ Paul S. Kemp
The bounty hunter sniffed and stood his ground as the outstretched tentacle at his boot flicked its glistening tip toward his face.
~ Unknown
I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I-Five had both hands up, the index fingers extended, like a child pretending to point a pair of blasters.
~ Michael Reaves