Steven Spielberg: "I thought Ridley [Scott, director of Blade Runner] painted a very bleak but brilliant vision of life on earth in a few years. It's kind of acid rain and sushi. In fact, it's coming true faster than most science fiction films come true. Blade Runner is almost upon us. It was ultranoir."
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg_pr.html
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shareJames Gunn (Director Guardians Of The Galaxy): "I think of this as a space epic. It’s not really science fiction. It’s an adventure film. But I’m a huge fan of those types of films. In the ‘70s and early ‘80s, Alien and Blade Runner came in and they were amazingly well designed films that had a great look to them. But they also then became this linchpin of everything that everyone else after that based their movies on, this sort of dark and dreary world. What I wanted to do from the beginning was create this extremely colourful, big world of the pulp science fiction movies of the ‘50s and ‘60s, but at the same time, have the dirtiness and the grittiness and the griminess of Blade Runner, or Alien in particular, which is really to me the one that’s the masterpiece in terms of how it defined that look, the industrial-ness of the future. For me, it’s about taking those things and then whatever’s my own weird way of looking at the world."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/16/why-guardians-of-the-galaxy-wil l-rock-your-world-this-summer
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Director, producer and writer, Charles de Lauzirika: "ALIEN took me to another world. But Blade Runner took me to another dimension."
This was a comment Mr. de Lauzirika made after a longer story about his first viewing of Alien.
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William Friedkin (Director of The French Connection, Killer Joe, The Exorcist, To Live And Die In L.A., ...): I like Ridley Scott's film called Alien and also Blade Runner. Those are two of the best of, I would say, the most recent films I've seen. I haven't seen too many films since Blade Runner, to be honest with you (laughs), but I like the Coen brothers' work ...
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Q: Ghost in the Shell is often referred to as one of the greater science-fiction films of our time and is mentioned in the same breath as films like 2001 and Solaris. What science fiction works do you find have been the most influential in your life and career?
Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In A Shell): "Blade Runner. This film made me believe firmly about what a movie could be and what it could do."
http://dorkshelf.com/2014/07/12/interview-mamoru-oshii/
How did you discover film?
Itay Gross (cinematopgrapher): Narratives and stories have always intrigued me and seemed like the most fascinating method of depicting desires, visions and fantasies. When I was 16, I saw Blade Runner for the first time. Looking back, I realize that film introduced me to the art of cinematography and the world of visual storytelling. I was staring at the images, mesmerized by the way Ridley Scott and the Director of Photography, Jordan Cronenweth, had managed to depict this futuristic and postmodern world in such a real and vivid way. I could smell the acidic rain flooding the streets of the mutant city of Los Angeles through the colors projected from the old CRT television set. This significant experience made me see the power and influence of films, and the role of cinematography within the process of visual storytelling. I wanted to be able to bring these kinds of images to life myself, to be able to depict a story in such a vivid and unique way that people would be able to smell it, to feel warm or cold, to feel they were practically there themselves. When I look back at this now, I realize it was a defining moment in my life.
What cinematographers inspired you to pick up a camera?
Jordan Cronenweth
Blade Runner might be Cronenweth’s only film that I like, or love I should say. It changed my life. I saw the images and was mesmerized. All I wanted was to be able, one day, to create such images.
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http://horror-writers.net/blog/interview-with-itay-gross/
Ivor Powell: "I was quite pleasantly surprised when I called Stanley up while I was making BLADE RUNNER (1982) with Ridley Scott and he told us that we could use some of his outtakes from THE SHINING (1980). I put Ridley in touch with Stanley and I think he allowed us to do that because he was a fan of ALIEN (1979) and of Ridley's work."
http://blog.tvstoreonline.com/2014/07/2001-space-odyssey-interview-series.html
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Blade Runner reference in new game Alien: Isolation:
http://www.dailynewsen.com/technology/there39s-a-pretty-good-blade-run ner-reference-in-alien-isolation-h2731304.html
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Hitfix: I'm curious, beyond what I'm sure your dad instilled in you, what are your sort of personal touchstones in cinematography? What movies have inspired you on that score?
Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer for Fight Club, Gone Girl, The Social Network, ...) : Who do I love?
Hitfix: Yeah, who do you love?
Jeff Cronenweth: Well, first off I'd say "Blade Runner," without a doubt. I'm a little biased because dad shot that but I remember going to the set night after night. I had just started working as a loader at a commercial company. That was in Studio City and they were shooting at Warner Bros., so it was a 10-minute drive from me every night and I would go and stay as long as I could stay awake watching them shoot "Blade Runner."
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/cinematographer-jeff-cronenweth-ta lks-gone-girl-film-digital-and-a-career-with-david-fincher/4
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From an interview with Andrew Bayer, electronic music producer and DJ:
To round things off, we also asked about the continued Blade Runner references in his work--Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep being the book the film was based on.
"I grew up being obsessed with Blade Runner. It was my favorite film and a big thing in my family. Everyone loved it; we practically studied it. Fast forward a bunch of years later, I end up signing with Anjunabeats as Signalrunners and call one of the tracks Electric Sheep! Then, the list goes on and on about the Blade Runner references. Might need to watch it again on the plane!"
Kat Dennings 'Replicant' fashion shoot:
http://www.sneakpeek.ca/2014/11/kat-dennings-is-replicant.html
Hans Zimmer: "But I think films about the future, all of them have an inherent nostalgic quality. If you think about "Blade Runner," incredibly nostalgic. If you think about "2001," I mean he couldn't get more nostalgic by using the music he did in that film. And the nostalgia somehow becomes very, very personal and I kept thinking the bigger our movie got, the more personal we got. It's not that we got smaller and quieter. I mean, yes, as you know, I am throwing a fair amount of volume at you. But still, the internal workings of the tunes are virtually all based on emotions and really personal feelings."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/hans-zimmer-says-junkie-xls-mad-ma x-score-is-mind-blowingly-brilliant#jTTXR6BeT22wT8kV.99
Ari Folman (Director Waltz With Bashir, The Congress) : "If you see Blade Runner today, it's probably the best sci-fi movie ever made. It still holds up, it's still a very fresh movie. Unbelievably made, with so much talent - everyone involved. And everything's made for real! Can you imagine that? There were no [digital] effects back then. If you look at Prometheus, for example, there's no comparison. [Ridley Scott] has all the money and technology in the world to make it, but his handcrafted movie was ten times better. But it depends on who does it."
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-congress/33151/ari-folman-interview-the-congress-nolan-kubrick
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Zeb Larson: When you first thought of this story, did you imagine it as a Sci-Fi story or a crime story? Is it both, or is it something else?
Michael Moreci (writer of the Roche Limit comic book series): It’s hard to say, because what I took form both is the existential underpinnings that exist in both genres (sometimes, of course). I always call back to Blade Runner—what is that movie? Sci-fi? Noir? Both, I’d argue, though they intersect in their leanings to examining the human condition, as both genres do so well. Roche Limit ascribes to something similar, as I did use stories that defy conventional categorization as the stars I steered by. But underneath them all was this philosophical bent that really speaks to me, that made their stories so much more.
http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/12/interview-michael-moreci.html
We've had a number of quotes from Christopher Nolan. This one is from an incredibly long, recent interview in The Hollywood Reporter:
When did it first occur to you to try filmmaking? And when did you first realize that it was something that you wanted to do long-term?
Well, I mean, right around that time. I’d already started playing around with my dad’s Super 8 camera, making little war films and stuff. And then, after Star Wars, my films all became space films. I think when I was about 12 or 13, I want to say, I started to begin to identify with the idea of the director as the sort of controlling force, or the closest analogy to what I was doing on my Super 8 camera, you know, just making images and putting them together. I remember being very struck by Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and noticing or sort of analyzing the fact that I liked [Scott's] Alien, as well — two totally different films, different actors, different stories, really, but the same mind behind them. And that’s what I was sort of focused on, the idea of the director and how the director could have a controlling effect on the creative side of the film that’s indefinable, but important and something you kind of feel. And then I got into writing because no one’s going to give you a script to direct when you’re starting out, so, I started writing, just for myself, just to be able to direct things. And I grew to like that part of it, as well.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/christopher-nolan-interstellar-c ritics-making-760897
http://tinyurl.com/p7jv3po
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BTW, are you sure the link to that interview is correct? Hollywoodreporter says it doesn't find the article that I'm searching for.
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Fixed, I think.
http://tinyurl.com/p7jv3po
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Jeff Cronenweth (cinematographer): Even on Blade Runner I shot a whole bunch of stuff just snooping around the sets and it’s the same stock my dad was shooting so it looks really good. I didn’t do anything, I just put the camera where his was. (laughs) That was a great learning experience. Unfortunately that’s gone, but then most of film is gone now too.
https://mattmulcahey.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/an-interview-with-gone-g irl-cinematographer-jeff-cronenweth/
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