I love the idea of people being themselves in films..

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 unbelievabl….

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble..

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….

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..

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 thin….

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 ….

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into….

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as….

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?.

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 film….

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 ….

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 o….

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 t….

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's ….

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 i….

There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film….

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?.

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 ….

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third Wor….

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