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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

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.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.