I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the connection between an artist's vision and the final artistic representation in film.
Philip K. Dick reflects on the powerful experience of seeing a visual representation of his internal thoughts and feelings in the special effects of 'Blade Runner.' This connection highlights how art can translate complex inner worlds into shared experiences, resonating deeply with both the creator and the audience.
In practice
During a discussion about the role of visual effects in film, this quote illustrates how closely they can align with an artist's vision.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.
I pride myself on working with great musicians.
Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
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