I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.
It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that.
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.
The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
Greg Rucka's 'Lazarus' is amazing.
For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
