I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.