Neill Blomkamp Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

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  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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• 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

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• If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, White, World

  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.

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  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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• High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Powerful, Horror Stories, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Artist, Reality, Design

  Source: collider.com

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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.

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  Would Be, Robocop, Ifs

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Optimistic, Views, Gains

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

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  Believe, Cutting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Incredibles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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  People, World, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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  Acting, Film, Be Prepared

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Ideas, People, Film

  Source: collider.com

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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.

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  Law, Ideas, Touching

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Strong, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  People, Interesting, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

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  Honest, Compromise, Standards

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Design, Brain, Height

  Source: collider.com

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