If you don’t have something that glues the audience to the screen, you’re in trouble. Neill Blomkamp Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg. Neill Blomkamp Read Quote
I think that ‘Elysium’ the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think ‘Elysium’ the metaphor is completely realistic: it’s exactly where we’re going. Neill Blomkamp Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
