Latest Neill Blomkamp Quotes from Interviews

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• I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Long, Trying, Filmmaking

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• If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Acting, Film, Be Prepared

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• I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

  Neill Blomkamp

  People, World, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you get increases in wealth discrepancy, which means that you get rich pockets of gated communities with security guards outside them, and you get more and more poverty outside that area.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Mean, Community, Growth

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• I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Incredibles

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• I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Okay

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Optimistic, Views, Gains

  Source: collider.com

• I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Firm, Believer, Humans

  Source: collider.com

• I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, People, Film

  Source: collider.com

• I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Reality, Design

  Source: collider.com

• Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Middle East, Drones, Nevada

  Source: collider.com

• I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Law, Ideas, Touching

  Source: collider.com

• There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Acting, Way, Evidence

  Source: collider.com

• This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

  Neill Blomkamp

  War, Reality, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

• You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Design, Brain, Height

  Source: collider.com

• If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Block, Dna, Years

  Source: collider.com

• I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Inspiration, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

• The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there's nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Mean, Thinking, Water

  Source: collider.com

• When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Stuff, Ends, Animation

  Source: collider.com

• News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

  Neill Blomkamp

  People, Interesting, Design

  Source: collider.com

• In the realm of strong A.I. or in the realm of human consciousness, I think that it's been something that troubles humans or forces us to look at it over and over for millennia, or as long as we've really been conscious, because there is no answer. There is no explanation for us, even for a one percent grip to hold on to. So we just don't know why we're here, we don't know how consciousness is created.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Strong, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

• My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why we exist and why consciousness exists changed during the making of Chappie. And I'm not actually completely sure that humans are going to be capable of giving birth to A.I. in the way that films fictionalize it.

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  Views, Ties, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• If you didn't get it right and then you have to release a director's cut to undo what the studio made you release, I don't know, either it's some marketing thing for them to get more money or the director didn't do his job.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Jobs, Cutting, Marketing

  Source: collider.com

• Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Battle, Scene, Lost

  Source: collider.com