Joel Silver Quotes

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.

A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.

I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

If you think about 'The Matrix' and how high-concept it was, it had these incredible ideas that really penetrated people's consciousness. It really was a film of awakening. I think a lot of people woke up around that film.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

I love The Matrix, especially the first one.

People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To me it was about, for me anyway, my character, I had this rock outside my door which said "faith" or "believe" or something, and I remember felt like that was my key into her, into Trinity. It was like she was the heart of it.

I'm far from casual. I'm a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.'

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.