Neill Blomkamp Quotes

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

Films make stars and stars never make films.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

I treat Hollywood as my high school.