Dystopian Quotes

I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's a movie that is linked with my love and passion for cinema.

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition in their network, and they value production value as much as we did, and that that would be a perfect place to do a show of this scope and this ambition.

I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer to think of China as a dystopian world that is challenging American hegemony, so we would like to think that Chinese sci-fi is all either militaristic or dystopian. But that's just not the reality of it.

[…] the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”

'Black Mirror' is definitely my favorite show.

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.