101 Quotes by Neill Blomkamp

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.

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.

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.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It’s like, well, they’re deleted because they’re not good or you lost the battle and you couldn’t put them in the movie.

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.

I don’t believe in director’s cuts and I also don’t really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that’s what the director made.

There’s a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there’s nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.

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