Shawn Levy Quotes

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

Ultimately, our ideas about robots are not about robots. The robot is a canvas onto which we project our hopes and our dreams and our fears... they become embodiments of those hopes and dreams and fears.

I'm not Borg Two, I'm Wilander One.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

'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.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

I know we've had AI films, but they've been quite specific in their scope. The scope of 'Humans' is a world set up where this technology is universally accepted. I haven't seen anything that's dealt with it in that multi-layered, every-layer-of-society way.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.