Looking at Speculative Fiction from Another Dimension.

Harlan Ellison with MVP’s Inspirational Storyteller Quote of the Week

Harlan Ellison with MVP’s Inspirational Storyteller Quote of the Week

Sep 26, 2013

“It is the game of “what if?”. You take that which is known, and you extrapolate – and you keep it within the bounds of logic, otherwise it becomes fantasy – and you say, “Well, what if?”. That’s what speculative fiction is, and at its very best, it is classic literature, on a level with Moby Dick and Colette and Edgar Allan...

Rob Zombie with MVP’s Inspirational Filmmaker Quote of the Week.

“I’m not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I’m sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.” Rob Zombie

J.R.R. Tolkien with MVP’s Inspirational Storyteller Quote of the Week.

“What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic,...

George Lucas donates quote for Inspirational Filmmaker Quote of the Week!

“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” George Lucas

Ridley Scott with MVP’s Inspirational Filmmaker Quote of the Week.

“You’re either going to believe in the fact that we’re by entirely genetic luck, so from day one where you have atomic storms — inconceivable storms that will go on in this nucleus, in which the dirt bowl will find some reason to start growth on everything — was that created? That may have been accidental, because I think there are...