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...
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.
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.
war easy deals
A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.
war gun nine
Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.
war gun ak-47
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.
available call cheaper computer czech fake generate imagery looked nato normally republic start tanks three warn weapons
Normally what you do is that you start with three tanks and you would use replication and you computer generate the other tanks, ... But here, they were so available I could use real tanks. It was cheaper to get real tanks in the Czech Republic than to make the fake ones that I would normally use computer generated imagery to do. In fact, we had to call NATO and warn them about that scene, because it looked like a weapons build-up in the Czech Republic.
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.
I make movies. I'm not in politics.