“My Kelvin decides to stay on the planet without any hope whatsoever while Tarkovsky created an image where some kind of an island appears, and on that island a hut. And when I hear about the hut and the island I'm beside myself with irritation… This is just some emotional sauce into which Tarkovsky has submerged his heroes, not to mention that he has completely amputated the scientific landscape and in its place introduced so much of the weirdness I cannot stand. […]”
On Solaris screening (1972)
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Polish science fiction author 1921–2006Related quotes
“These are Fortunate Islands,
These are lands without a place”
Poem "As Ilhas Afortunadas", verses 11-12
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Original: São ilhas afortunadas,
São terras sem ter lugar
The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Man, Androids and Machine" (1975), reprinted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995) Lawrence Sutin, ed.
Context: These creatures are among us, although morphologically they do not differ from us; we must not posit a difference of essence, but a difference of behavior. In my science fiction I write about about them constantly. Sometimes they themselves do not know they are androids. Like Rachel Rosen, they can be pretty but somehow lack something; or, like Pris in We Can Build You, they can be absolutely born of a human womb and even design androids — the Abraham Lincoln one in that book — and themselves be without warmth; they then fall within the clinical entity "schizoid," which means lacking proper feeling. I am sure we mean the same thing here, with the emphasis on the word "thing." A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 15
“You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.”
A Christina Aguilera interview to MTV - Compiled by Stephanie McGrath http://www.aclasscelebs.com/christinaa/interview.htm (1999)