"This is not to deny that the 1950s B-movie boom has proved a productive site for innumerable depth readings, in the sense that they are obviously 'about' the Cold War, or nuclear anxiety, or imperialism, or depersonalization, or post-war gender realignments, often in overdtermined ways. What such readings tend to ignore, however, are the very surfaces of the texts which are largely dismissed in order to focus on their latency."
– Roger Luckhurst, The Angle Between Two Walls
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
