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.
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.
Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.