"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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Source : "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

Neill Blomkamp

#Thinking Quotes #Ice Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”
“Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.”
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

Source : Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9
“Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.”
“Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.”
“You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.”
“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.”
“A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.”

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