I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.
Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
It's better to die free than live life in a cage.
C'est exaltant, comme d'ouvrir une cage, et c'est déprimant, comme de tirer sur le fil d'un vieux chandail.
