Neill Blomkamp Quotes

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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.
• I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
• I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.
• 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.
• If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?
• If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
• A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But…
• 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.…
• '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.…
• '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…
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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