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Neill Blomkamp is a South African-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Known for his unique science fiction works, he is best recognized for his films 'District 9' and 'Elysium'. Blomkamp's films often explore social inequality and the impact of technology on humanity.

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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.”

Ifs Knows Made Jobs Cutting Directors Marketing Studios Release More Money

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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.”

Ifs Feels My Own Honest Products Standards Compromise

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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.”

People Ifs Stills Term Interesting Fiction Design News Make Sense

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“If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.”

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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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“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.”

Ifs Used Views Consciousness Gains Optimistic Naive

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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.”

Ifs Would Be Robocop

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

Ifs Humans Smart Treats

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

Ifs Audience Trouble Screens Glue

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Used Artist Effects Related Visuals Filmmaking Visual Effects

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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.”

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Film Goal Audience Changing The World Mistaken Better Ways Observant

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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.”

Ifs Thinking World White South Compare Brits English Speaking

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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.”

Ifs Looks Seems Film Fiction Influence Science Fiction Meaningful Filmmaker Stimulus Most Meaningful

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About the Author

Born: September 17, 1979
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 53

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