Andrew Niccol Quotes

#1. A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

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#2. While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

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#3. If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

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#4. Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. I make movies. I'm not in politics.

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#11. It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

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#15. I never saved anything for the swim back.

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