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Top 30 Neill Blomkamp Quotes (2025 Update)

Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think that ‘Elysium’ the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think ‘Elysium’ the metaphor is completely realistic: it’s exactly where we’re going.”

1. “I think that ‘Elysium’ the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think ‘Elysium’ the metaphor is completely realistic: it’s exactly where we’re going.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think the world of ‘District 9’ has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.”

2. “I think the world of ‘District 9’ has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it’s the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.”

3. “I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it’s the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there’s nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.”

4. “The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there’s nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It’s like, well, they’re deleted because they’re not good or you lost the battle and you couldn’t put them in the movie.”

5. “Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It’s like, well, they’re deleted because they’re not good or you lost the battle and you couldn’t put them in the movie.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.”

6. “I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There’s no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.”

7. “You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There’s no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “It’s just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.”

8. “It’s just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.”

9. “Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn’t come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that’s where the stimuli and influence comes from.”

10. “If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn’t come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that’s where the stimuli and influence comes from.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.”

11. “A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “My own standards that I’ll hold myself to is if the product that I’m making feels honest and it feels like I didn’t compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.”

12. “My own standards that I’ll hold myself to is if the product that I’m making feels honest and it feels like I didn’t compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “Obviously I don’t want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct – I’m not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.”

13. “Obviously I don’t want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct – I’m not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I love the idea of people being themselves in films.”

14. “I love the idea of people being themselves in films.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn’t a human?”

15. “If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn’t a human?”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.”

16. “I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “If you didn’t get it right and then you have to release a director’s cut to undo what the studio made you release, I don’t know, either it’s some marketing thing for them to get more money or the director didn’t do his job.”

17. “If you didn’t get it right and then you have to release a director’s cut to undo what the studio made you release, I don’t know, either it’s some marketing thing for them to get more money or the director didn’t do his job.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think naturally I’m a very visual kind of person. If I wasn’t in filmmaking, I’d be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.”

18. “I think naturally I’m a very visual kind of person. If I wasn’t in filmmaking, I’d be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.”

19. “If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?”

20. “This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “News is almost more interesting to me than other people’s fiction, if that makes sense. But other people’s fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.”

21. “News is almost more interesting to me than other people’s fiction, if that makes sense. But other people’s fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It’s like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.”

22. “When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It’s like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think that people who make films and think they’re changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I’m making politically observant films for audiences.”

23. “I think that people who make films and think they’re changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I’m making politically observant films for audiences.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I’m sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like ‘Black Hawk Down,’ and I could also totally do horror.”

24. “I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I’m sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like ‘Black Hawk Down,’ and I could also totally do horror.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “If you don’t have something that glues the audience to the screen, you’re in trouble.”

25. “If you don’t have something that glues the audience to the screen, you’re in trouble.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don’t over intellectualize stuff much. It’s a very instinctual thing.”

26. “I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don’t over intellectualize stuff much. It’s a very instinctual thing.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn’t the primary driving force.”

27. “I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn’t the primary driving force.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.”

28. “I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I’d heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.”

29. “High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I’d heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you’re going to make a difference or change anything, you’re on pretty dangerous thin ice.”

30. “I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you’re going to make a difference or change anything, you’re on pretty dangerous thin ice.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I don’t believe in director’s cuts and I also don’t really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that’s what the director made.”

31. “I don’t believe in director’s cuts and I also don’t really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that’s what the director made.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It’s always what’s appealing or what’s cool.”

32. “I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It’s always what’s appealing or what’s cool.”

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Neill Blomkamp Quote: “There’s a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.”

33. “There’s a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.”

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