“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.” IfsFeelsLooksIdeasDifferentDoneActionFilmSidesFictionStepsComedyScience FictionUnusualAction Films Author:Guy Pearce
“Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.” WorldLiteratureSidesJusticeFictionUnderdog Author:Grace Paley
“I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.” MenHappensUniverseSidesBlackFictionStudyPossibilityPlanetsScience FictionVariousPhysicsHolesBlack HoleVortex Author:Wesley Snipes
“I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.” LittlesSidesFictionCreativeSeaOceanIslandsNonfictionCaribbeanAtlantic Ocean Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.” I CanSeemsWantedSidesFiction Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.” IfsWantSaidRealityArtistSidesFictionDesignFiction And Reality Author:Neill Blomkamp
“There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.” WorldMatterSidesFictionNovelScience FictionFantasticDocumentsDocumentariesCrux Author:Amos Oz
“The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.” MightEarthGuyGamesSidesFictionFantasyRecordsImagineMiddleProductsMetsForgottenSettingSettingsRealmsIntricateMiddle Earth Author:Paul S. Kemp
“Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.” I CanSidesSpaceFictionPossibilityMaterialsAmountShapesBottomPrimariesNarrativeNonfictionTopicsFiniteChokeFreezeFabricate Author:Melissa Febos
“To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.” ThinkingRealityTodayPoliticalSidesGoalSpaceFictionPlanetsDiversityScientistScience FictionIncludingInternationalShipsStationsInventorAmazing ThingsDiplomatsTechniciansSpacecraftInternational Space Station Author:George Takei
“I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all comes from a different, less rationally manipulable side of the brain. I am personally very attached to reactionary figures like Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, and Céline.” ThinkingShouldDifferentPoliticalLiteratureSidesLinesBrainFictionOpinionFiguresConceptionAccommodateReactionariesDostoyevskyApoliticalPolitical Opinions Author:Pankaj Mishra