Neill Blomkamp Quotes

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• If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

  Neill Blomkamp

  Smart, Treats, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Immigration, Elysium, World

  "Immersed in Movies: Neill Blomkamp Talks ‘Elysium,’ Sci-Fi, VFX" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Race, Ideas

  "Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Decision, Instinct

  Source: collider.com

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• I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Looks, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2009.

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• I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Space, Elysium

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• If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Glue, Trouble, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Reality, Views, Class

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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• I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Ice, Ideas

  "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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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

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Meaningful, Looks, Fiction

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 31, 2009.

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• 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

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• I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Gun, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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• I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, People, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Half, Kind, Los Angeles

  "Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• 'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Would Be, Robocop, Ifs

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• A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

  Neill Blomkamp

  House, Tree, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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