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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Nathaniel West, artist and designer of video games Zelda and Transmission:
"I’m a concept artist working in feature films and themed entertainment. Before that I attended Art Center College of Design, and graduated with a degree in Illustration. When I was young, I was really inspired by the artwork for Star Wars by Ralph McQuarrie, and the artwork of Syd Mead, who did amazing design work on Blade Runner among other things. I decided that using illustration to visualize fantasy worlds would be really exciting, and that’s what I’ve been doing ever since."
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/13/transmission-takes-the-zelda-form ula-to-a-mysterious-painterly-planet/
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Jonathan Nolan (writer): My brother’s favorite movie is Blade Runner. I can’t count the amount of times he’s made me watch it. I think the other thing that’s fascinating about doing this now is, in a short amount of time since Blade Runner came out, the kind of science that we’re talking about has become closer to “science” than it is to the ”fiction” part of “science-fiction.” I think we’re standing at an interesting precipice from which to both view the future and to hypothesize about the future. I think that all of that new information will help add new dimensions to this world.
How Blade Runner Influences Westworld:
http://beyondwestworld.com/2015/02/23/blade-runner-influences-westworl d/
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French musician Joséphine de la Baume who along with her brother, Alexandre make up the band Sinktank:
How do you create music videos that are representative of your sound? Are you involved in the process?
Of course. I directed the first music video for our second record’s first single "Can You Hear Me." We watched a lot of movies that inspired us like Blade Runner or Chungking Express that are both about urban life, although one is more retro-futuristic than the other. We also watched a lot of 2001: A Space Odyssey during the recording of our record so it was important that all videos looked quite cinematic to us. And a video is just another tool to communicate on the universe and mood of your record.
If your new album was a movie, what kind of movie would it be? What song on the album would be the movie's theme tune and why?
It would be Chungking Express meets Blade Runner meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Ursus” would be 2001: A Space Odyssey because there's something of alien about how we mixed my voice and Alex's one—we're siblings so we have the same tone except my voice is more high pitched—so it sounds like one voice. “Coming Down” would be Chungking Express because of the nostalgia it expresses about a city with the love of its discovery, the poetry of the streets and the corners of it, the bar etc. Blade Runner would be “Can You Hear Me.” I know it's a reggae beat, but still there's something retro-futuristic about the mood of it. It's about my best friend who passed right before the recording and it's a kind of upbeat celebration of him with a lot of tenderness and nostalgia, but a lot of hope in it, Blade Runner is our world that looks like tomorrow with a lot of elements of yesterday if that makes sense.
The L.A. synth-pop quartet LEX:
“A lot of our inspiration comes from movies such as Blade Runner, The Neverending Story and Labyrinth,” bandmember Leah Chrisholm tells EW via email.
Question: What are some of your favorite science fiction scores?
Hans Zimmer (film composer): "Well, Blade Runner. I love Sunshine. I think John Murphy is such an underrated composer. I just love that score. I think it’s really hard to beat Alien just for its sheer elegance and what Jerry Goldsmith did. Brazil, you know. But weirdly I mean one of the things was I couldn’t watch any of these movies for the last two years because I needed to make our movie. Yes we talked a lot about 2001 and 2001 was really daunting to me for a while.
I have this crazy theory about science fiction. I think all science fiction movies are inherently nostalgic. I think Blade Runner is one of the most nostalgic movies you can think of. Gattaca is incredibly nostalgic somehow. So with this nostalgia, they become weirdly personal. And that got me back to where we were starting which was by going as far away from humanity and Earth as we possibly could in this movie. Every moment needed to remind us of who we are or question of who we are or make us an ache for who we left behind."
Question: If you would had the chance to score for one movie which has already been released, which would it be?
Hans Zimmer: "Blade Runner. But I love what Vangelis did so much, so not really."
http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/hans-zimmer/241533/hans-zimmer-talks-about-scoring-interstellar-and-why-batman-needs-a-new-theme
http://interviewly.com/i/hans-zimmer-jun-2013-reddit
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Director Brian Miller talking about his movie Vice:
I'm a huge sci-fi, action buff. I mean I grew up on Blade Runner, Metropolis, and of course the Star Wars Trilogy, the original trilogy. It was one of those things I was immediately attracted to because it took that original vision of a dystopian reality of the future combining it with the perfection of an America we no longer have and really kind of turned it on its axis and that's what really drove me towards it.
Keanu Reeves: "They are bringing back Blade Runner?! No! Who's doing that madness? Oh, my gosh!"