Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.