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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

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✓Similar Perspectives

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

— Anne Rice

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

— Denis Villeneuve

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

— Seth Rogen

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

— Terry McMillan

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

— Daniel Dae Kim

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

— James Rollins

I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.

— James Wan

I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.

— Marie Avgeropoulos

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical.

— Morten Tyldum

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

— Bernie Siegel