Science fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. In many cases, tropes derived from written science fiction may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science fiction is traditionally held.
The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1902) employed trick photography effects. The next major example in the genre was the film Metropolis (1927) - being the first feature length science fiction movie. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences after the success of Star Wars and paved the way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades.
I think the title may spill all in this future society Dramedy
The world has united in a split society not defined by geographic boundries, but by communication streams.
Indeed a peace as we might define it today does exist as the battle remains on an intellectual level since the banishment of all weapons of physical harm was established in 2047.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
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