The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
