Neill Blomkamp Quotes

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

I only make films when I have something to say.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

When you're filming, you're blind. But if you follow what really moves you, then you operate from a place of hope: maybe that the story you're telling will resonate with whatever the world will have become when the film is ready to be born.

Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to titillate.

The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.

Even when he transposes Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' he injects so much of his own personality and his own world that it becomes a Wes Anderson story, and you forget that Roald Dahl is behind the story. That's the proof of great directors to be able to digest and recreate sometimes a classic.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

I don't see art as entertainment.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.