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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… — Neill Blomkamp
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… — Neill Blomkamp
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing… — Neill Blomkamp
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman… — Helen Fisher
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it… — Martin Filler
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. — Greg Graffin
I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive… — Greg Graffin
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species… — Greg Graffin
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture. — Chris Hardwick
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible. — Anurag Kashyap
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products… — Douglas Rushkoff
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not. — Kurt Vonnegut
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. — Tullian Tchividjian
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason — Robert Harris
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis… — Gary Hamel
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some… — Albert Einstein
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson
And Father said, â€œThere are no happy endings.â€ â€œRight!â€ cried Iowa Bob â€“ an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. â€œDeath… — John Irving
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, â€˜No, Iâ€™m not interested.â€™ I believe… — Paulo Coelho
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act… — Stephen Covey

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