So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.