The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
Now I understand,” said the last man.
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him