Neill Blomkamp Quotes

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

I've worked on so many films where the script is one thing and then, somewhere down the line - on set, sometimes - it changes, and there's zero I can do about it.

I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'