Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.