Gerard Malanga Quotes

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

I feel like the world of Blade Runner makes more sense than this one.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.