Andrew Niccol
Andrew Niccol
Andrew M. Niccolis a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, Lord of War, In Time, The Host, and Good Kill. He also wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. His films tend to explore social, cultural and political issues, as well as artificial realities or simulations...
reflection decision today
As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.
people
We live vicariously through celebrities. People used to say that celebrities are America's royalty; now I think celebrities are the world's royalty.
sort
I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it,
arms good
I wouldn't make a very good arms dealer.
changes choice choices either embrace embraced good hands peter wash
You have two choices when someone changes your work, ... You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it. I embraced it. Peter and I are good friends.
arms biggest council members nations permanent security united
It's so startling to know that the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations are the biggest arms dealers in the world, so they are really the
effect good harder nonsense people ultimately views
It made hard-core people harder core, ... Ultimately it had a good effect because it made such nonsense of so many views about guns.
american-novelist biggest bush clinton exporter far
The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.
hear mass nine victims war weapons
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction, ... But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
I make movies. I'm not in politics.
war home drones
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.
able done superstitious
I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.
years interesting guy
Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.
thinking america long
I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.