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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.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Funny
Hilarious
Like
Mixed
Would
Would-Be
You
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'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. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.
~ Neill Blomkamp
About
Almost
Any
District
First
First World
General
How
Immigration
Like
Meet
Metaphor
More
Most
Scenario
Singular
Suit
Thing
Third
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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.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Based
Because
Born
Character
Comedy
Concept
District
First
I Think
Imagery
More
Much
Out
Person
Ridiculous
Robot
Setting
Some
Think
Unusual
Visual
Were
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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 Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
~ Neill Blomkamp
100 Years
About
America
Been
Done
Everything
Feels
Films
Inspirational
Kind
Lot
Making
Me
People
Unbelievably
Up
Used
Years
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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
Big
Houses
Important
Lot
Never
Never Underestimate
Ostentatious
Palm
Parts
Suburbs
Trees
Underestimate
Very
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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
About
Actor
Actor
Change
Come
Heard
Horror
How
Powerful
Really
Script
Size
Stories
Trailers
Your
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I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Actually
Become
Future
Going
I Think
Johannesburg
Like
Looks
Represents
Think
Version
World
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I don't put any pressure on myself in terms of what people or fans do or don't want. It really just doesn't occur to me. I honestly just want to make the films I want to see as a fan. The film will survive or fail in my mind by how much I like it. Having said that, everyone wants their films to do well and to be well-received.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Any
Everyone
Fail
Fan
Fans
Film
Films
Having
Honestly
How
How Much
Just
Like
Make
Me
Mind
Much
Myself
Occur
People
Pressure
Put
Really
Said
See
Survive
Terms
Want
Wants
Well
Will
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I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Away
Behind
Difficult
Egos
Film
Focus
Ideas
Make
More
Movie
People
Personalities
Set
Take
Want
Who
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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 most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Also
Artist
Black
Category
Could
Creatures
Design
Down
Fiction
Film
Films
Grew
Guns
Hawk
Horror
I Can
I Think
Like
Make
Making
Most
Myself
Science
Science Fiction
See
Stuff
Sure
Think
Totally
Up
Well
Will
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I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.
~ Neill Blomkamp
About
Bunch
Career
Could
Doing
Effects
Film
Get
Like
Million
Much
Same
Satisfaction
Shot
Strategy
Way
Zero
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I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Also
Budget
Enough
Films
I Can
Imagery
Just
Low
Make
Off
Pull
Want
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I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably - besides the first two 'Alien' films, I watch '2001', I watch 'Star Wars', the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, 'Empire Strikes Back' especially.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Actually
Alien
Back
Because
Besides
Effect
Empire
Favorites
Films
First
Had
Huge
Just
Like
Lot
Me
Movies
Over
Over It
Sci-Fi
Seems
Star
Star Wars
Strikes
Stuff
Those
Two
Wars
Watch
Well
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I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Corporations
Dollars
Everything
Fact
Global
Going
Hollywood
Integration
Like
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Part
Rule
Technology
Wanted
Where
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I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Always
Appealing
Cool
Never
Really
Something
Terms
Think
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I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really like to do that film. But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Control
Film
Given
Halo
Idea
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Interpretation
Involved
Like
Love
My Own
Mythology
Other
Own
People
Problem
Property
Really
Same
Something
Still
Universe
Versus
World
Would
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I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Able
Advanced
Approaching
Artistic
Become
Bit
Filmmakers
General
I Think
Just
Mainstream
More
More And More
Normal
Pretty
Realistic
Recently
Something
Stories
Takes
Technology
Tell
Thing
Think
Time
Tools
Until
Up
Way
You
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I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Africa
Beginning
Between
Canada
Difference
First
First World
Genuinely
Growing
Growing Up
How
I Think
Immigration
Interested
Just
Lot
Mind
Moving
New
Operate
Run
South
South Africa
Then
Things
Think
Third
Those
Through
Up
World
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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.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Actually
Artist
Filmmaking
I Think
Kind
Naturally
Person
Related
Something
Think
Used
Very
Visual
Visuals
Work
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I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Able
Change
Computers
Create
Deal
Genetic
Humans
I Think
Inherently
Need
Our
Out
Problems
Think
Us
Will
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17 September, 1979
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