Anime Quote by Shinichiro Watanabe

'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth':…

— Richard Corliss

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

— Charlize Theron

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and…

— Ridley Scott

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of…

— Avi Arad

For me, 'Blade Runner' is one of the big influences in my life - I saw it when I was 13 or 14, when…

— Johann Johannsson

The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, 'Blade Runner.'

— Shinichiro Watanabe

Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A…

— James Berardinelli

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful…

— Rutger Hauer

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

— Anonymous

The first 'Blade Runner' is a cool movie. It's a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a…

— Ana de Armas

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

— Brion James

I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own…

— Philip K. Dick