Charlie Jane Anders famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Trying #Dystopian #Back In Time
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Character #Skins #Looks
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Ocean #Moving #Ecosystems
There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Thinking #Light #Law
I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Smart #Technology #Thinking
On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Stars #Technology #Hands
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Genre Is #Long #Boss
Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Technology #Thinking #Together Again
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
-- Charlie Jane Anders

#Writing #Fiction Stories #Science Fiction

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

Charlie Jane Anders famous quotes

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