Monday, February 18, 2013

Television and Cinema Verities #58




"Science fiction loves to warn. Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true."

- Steven Spielberg on the science fiction film and Minority Report (2002), at the BBC.

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