Blomkamp Director Quotes & Sayings

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

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. — Jack Kerouac

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. — Hugh Grant

Wouldn't want to tarnish my image by looking like a good guy. — Janet Evanovich

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. — Neill Blomkamp

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker

Everything is strange, complex and complicated, but this are the features which make it incrediable. — Deyth Banger

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. — Neill Blomkamp

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. — Ridley Scott

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that. — Adrian Tomine

That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long. — Jason Wu

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome. — Muhammad Ali

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

Anna finds remnants of cocaine on my coffee table and goes all daughter-of-Belial on me. — Wendy Higgins

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources. — B.F. Skinner

liberalism and democracy, with all of their limitations, are what remains after every utopia and extremist scheme based on blood and territory has been exposed and shattered by reality. — Robert D. Kaplan