Science & Tech Quote by James Gunn

"That certainly is one approach to take" is Gunn at his most politely barbed: a smile that contains a critique. He’s responding to a long-standing strain of cultural gatekeeping that treats genre fandom as something you either outgrow or sand down into "serious" art. The subtext is clear: plenty of creators distance themselves from their early sci-fi loves to earn adult credibility, but Gunn thinks that move misunderstands where the electricity comes from.

By invoking the "inner child", he’s not pitching nostalgia as a mood board; he’s framing it as a working method. Gunn’s films and scripts tend to operate on a double channel: big, weird, often sincere spectacle with a self-aware edge that refuses to be embarrassed by its own feelings. "Work with my first fascination" suggests collaboration with that earlier self, not indulgence of it. The goal isn’t regression, it’s access: to the raw curiosity that makes science fiction more than aesthetics.

The key phrase is "idea content and narrative drive". Gunn is arguing that sci-fi’s alleged juvenilia is actually its engine: high-concept questions that force story to move, and stories that smuggle those questions into the bloodstream. He’s staking out a craft position as much as a cultural one: don’t discard the genre’s pulp momentum in the pursuit of prestige. Refine it, aim it, let it hit. That’s how you make work that’s accessible without being empty, and emotional without apologizing for being fun.