When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'
Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.