"Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint."

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Source : Source: collider.com

#Drama Quotes #Blade Runner Quotes #Messages Quotes

“Politicians, ugly buildings, and ***** all get respectable if they last long enough.”

Source : Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.80, Grove Press
“I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and that they are forcibly entering the world of my paintings. I want there to be a feeling of overpowering decadence to the work, that is almost too much to take. I don't want them to be subtle.”
“I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.”
“I don't have hobbies. I have passions.”
“Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.”
“Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.”
“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.”
“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”

Source : Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

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