Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.