I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.
I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing.
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.
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