“My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.” ThinkingKindTwoCharacterFilmNextDifferencesFictionStudyPiecesSpecialEffectsConflictScience FictionPrioritiesBudgetsSpecial EffectsIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.” ThinkingPlayFilmCan DoFictionNovel Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.” PeopleHas BeensBookFilmFictionFantasySuccessfulScience FictionAll TimeIronicSci Fi Author:David S. Goyer
“I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.” IfsThinkingWritingSometimesFilmCoursesStuffAnswersFictionWriting Fiction Author:Matthew Specktor
“I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLongFilmBehindsFictionScience FictionHistoricalWriting History Author:William Monahan
“We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.” KnowsMadeTogetherFilmCertainValuesNamesProcessFictionPlantScriptsMade ItTranslationsRite Author:Ciro Guerra
“While the film [Hide and seek] is a work of fiction, I know many people, not just women, who have felt the way my character feels in the film, a certain kind of invisibility. I am grateful that my parents, Bev Umehara and Russell Chang, instilled a healthy sense of self-esteem in me from an early age.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsKindSelfCharacterAgeFilmCertainFeltParentFictionSelf EsteemHealthyGratefulEsteemSense Of SelfInvisibilityI Am GratefulHide And Seek Author:Garth Kravits
“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveSaidFilmFictionPerceptionShoesActressesSellingNon FictionCaricaturesButchersSelling Shoes Author:Isabelle Huppert
“When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.” IfsShouldMindLittlesSaidFilmFeltFictionKnownDirectorsProgramScience FictionScriptsI RealizedEducatedSpokesSci FiAndrewDronesFactual Author:Zoe Kravitz
“One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.” WritingImportantFilmMy OwnSpaceFictionTalkingMaterialsCriticalDocumentariesEditsTheatrical Author:Robert Greene
“I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.” ThinkingIdeasFilmFictionHorrorScience FictionHorror FilmTropes Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.” WritingYearsBookStoriesFilmTermFictionQualityAngrySpeedComicGuaranteesRelativeIndicatorsSlownessPostcardsSwiftness Author:Chuck Wendig
“I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.” YearsBigsWantedFilmFictionFansHorrorScience FictionGenreObsessedTeenageNerdHorror FilmTeenage Years Author:Alex Stapleton
“The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.” PeopleMenWellsKindFilmPoliticalSocialBlackFictionNovelConditionsHorrorScience FictionConnectedInvisibleRelateDescriptionCrucialBlack PeopleImplicationsHorror FilmInvisibilityVisibility Author:Kerry James Marshall
“I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.” Has BeensStoriesFilmBeliefFictionTakenShotsContraryNon FictionGlamorousContrary To Popular Belief Author:Stephen Hawking
“I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.” FeelsTryingFilmFictionNon FictionSubtext Author:Brett Morgen
“I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsRealMatterWould BeFilmUniverseDifferencesFictionFiveNo Matter WhatScience FictionFive YearsSuperheroDistributionTake ControlDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.” WorldWantWritingLooksArtGovernmentTodayFilmFictionSituationFiguresSeriousCoupleDirectorsLaborChinaLimitationCorporationsPhrasesAgencyDissentConstraintsCommentaryFree SocietyProminentFilm DirectorsIntelligence Agencies Author:Pankaj Mishra
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” ShouldFeelingsFilmEmotionBehindsFictionDirectorsMoodFilmmakerMovieThemeFilmmakingProgressionFilm DirectorsMovie DirectorRelay RacesFilm DirectingDirecting FilmIndependent Filmmaking Author:Stanley Kubrick
“The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.” PeopleFilmImaginationFictionEntertainmentMediumsNostalgic Author:J. G. Ballard