Neill Blomkamp Quotes

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

I get bored watching action movies.

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I love caper films.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.