Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

'Terminator' is one of my favorite films, and so is 'Terminator 2.'

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

'Terminator' is one of my favorite movies.

I'm far from casual. I'm a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.'

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I would love to do some type of action feature. That's my goal. A really cool, Transformers-type feature would be awesome.

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.

I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it.

I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.