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If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Core
Deep
Existing
Film
Filmmaker
Films
Known
Makes
Me
Point
Reason
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If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Audience
Screen
Something
Trouble
You
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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.
~ Neill Blomkamp
African
American
Australians
Brits
Canadians
Compare
English-Speaking
Exactly
Exactly The Same
I Think
Just
New
Rest
Same
South
Think
White
World
You
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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.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Based
Because
Come
Fiction
Filmmakers
Films
Influence
Look
Make
Meaningful
Most
Now
Other
Place
Science
Science Fiction
Seem
Stimuli
Watching
Where
You
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If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Around
Artist
Because
Doing
Even
Just
Know
Means
Observing
Other
People
Really
Sense
Some
Stuff
Then
World
You
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In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Area
Basketball
Buy
Cents
Cheesy
Feet
Having
Impoverished
Johannesburg
Kind
Like
Long
Lot
People
Really
See
Them
Transparent
Treat
Weird
Which
You
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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 slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Angeles
Because
Both
Feels
Half
Happening
Johannesburg
Just
Kind
Like
Los
Los Angeles
Parts
Rio
Same
Same Time
Severe
Something
Time
Wealthy
Weird
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Because
Break
Correct
Disappear
Down
Fiction
Film
Going
Incorrect
Just
Make
May
Metaphors
Obviously
Offends
People
Point
Politically
Politically Correct
Politically Incorrect
Science
Science Fiction
Some
Something
Want
Whole
World
You
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On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Destined
Going
Hand
I Think
Incredible
Ourselves
Out
People
Percent
Something
Think
Wipe
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Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Also
Aspect
Both
Both Sides
Different
Every
Everything
Fun
Harmless
Make
Really
Satire
Sides
Way
You
You Can Do It
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The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Any
Beginning
Concept
Distant
Even
Fans
Feel
Filmmaker
Films
Finding
Foot
Having
Hollywood
Idea
Just
Kind
Like
Making
May
Me
Mind
Only
Participate
People
Really
Release
Something
Still
Very
Waiting
Weird
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The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Alien
Because
Director
Doing
Film
First
I Can
Just
Know
Like
Made
Make
Me
Necessarily
Old
Over
Remember
Saw
Seeing
Stop
Want
Wanted
Watching
Where
Years
Young
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The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Cameron
Early
Guess
Had
I Love
Influence
James
Late
Like
Love
Main
Paul
Star
Star Wars
Stuff
Wars
Younger
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The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.
~ Neill Blomkamp
About
Anything
Could
Film
Genre
History
Interested
Lure
Magical
Making
Me
Movie
Only
See
Something
Very
War
Would
Would-Be
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There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.
~ Neill Blomkamp
About
Because
Class
Different
Different Way
Feels
Fiction
Film
Interest
Interested
Like
Loads
Making
Me
People
Racial
Reality
Really
Science
Science Fiction
Situations
Subjects
Talk
Them
Through
Using
Veneer
View
Way
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There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Absorb
Action
Allegory
Also
Audiences
Balancing
Computer
Constant
Design
Element
Engage
Fits
Game
Genre
Graphics
Guns
Hollywood
Like
Mould
Much
Observations
Popcorn
Same
Them
Vehicle
Want
Way
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There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.
~ Neill Blomkamp
About
Body
Consciousness
Cross
Exist
Fascinating
Fundamentally
Guess
Human
Human Body
Intact
Keeping
Mechanics
Mind
Over
Something
Those
Two
Where
While
You
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There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Also
Could
Fiction
First
First World
How
Idea
Interested
Interesting
Interesting Idea
Johannesburg
Just
Made
Me
Mess
Metaphor
No Question
Question
Really
Science
Science Fiction
Separation
Third
Wealth
World
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What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Annoyed
Around
Care
Describe
Die
Gets
Goes
Happy
Just
Life
Mastered
Me
Most
Much
Myself
Off
People
Relatively
Seem
Society
Spend
Suppose
Then
Thinking
Time
Too
Too Much
Too Much Time
Walk
Would
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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 into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Any
Based
Burger
Burger King
Climbing
Coming
Director
Ends
Film
Garbage
Generic
Gets
Hired
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
King
Meat
Million
Other
Out
Piece
Pile
Property
Side
Studio
Up
You
Young
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