Paul M. Sammon > Quotes

“In my mind android is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but behaving in a nonhuman way.”
― Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

“The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It’s a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it’s more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.”
― Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

“The biggest excuse for film is that it is a film. It’s a game, an art for a bunch of people who sit in a dark theatre. The light hits them and then they go home, and it’s more or less over. But a good film, or a cautionary one . . . A darkened theater is a safe place to say things that mean something.”
― Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

“Alongside Martian Timeslip and The Man in the High Castle,” Dick told this author in 1981, “Sheep? is one of my three favorite novels.”
― Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

“The term android is a dangerous one, undermined by certain generic assumptions. I don’t like using it. In fact, I threatened to crack open heads with a baseball bat if I heard it used around me on the set,” Scott jestingly declared to this writer in 1981. “You see, android is a very familiar word. Not just to science fiction readers, but to the general public. A lot of material—some good, some crap—has been touched by the term. Therefore, I didn’t want Blade Runner to be premonitory of android at all. Because then people would think that this film was about robots, when in fact it isn’t. I thought it was better that we come up with a new word altogether.”
― Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner