Monday, February 17, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities #109


"If you believe, its science fact; if you don't believe, it's science fiction. I'm an agnostic between the two beliefs, so for me it's science speculation. It's not ten light years away, it's right in the heart of American suburbia."

- Director Steve Spielberg discusses Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and his opinion of the UFO phenomenon.  From Steven Spielberg: Interviews, University of Press of Mississippi, 2000, page 31.
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