“As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?” WorldMadeUseWonderMachinesTradeComplexesFinancialCreditExpertsSci FiArrangementsKnotsDefaultUnwindSci Fi MovieCredit Default Swap Author:Richard Dooling
“With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.” ImportantRealFantasyMaterialsSourceExpertsSci FiPresentingFandoms Author:Lena Headey
“As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayCharacterActorsFunTypeDoctorsLawyerOver ItSci Fi Author:Tricia Helfer
“The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.” HorrorMessagesEntertainmentGenreSci FiSubversive Author:Ethan Hawke
“I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.” TryingKindGuyGirlPoorTerribleHandleSci FiMarsTerrible ThingsSwampsLeversSci Fi Movie Author:Neil Innes