Simon Kinberg (Simon David Kinberg) Quotes

The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.

Simon Kinberg

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• The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.

  

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