Neill Blomkamp Quotes

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.

Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

I think the cinematography in 'Mr. Robot' is some of the best I've ever seen, honestly. Not even as being part of the show but as somebody who enjoys cinema and movies in film and TV.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

Cinema is about transferring thought into action.

To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.

For me, I don't think there's anything more human than technology. That's a big thing separating us from other animals: we make things, we build things, we create machines.

I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.