“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”

“I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference.”

“When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.”

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns”