Andrew Niccol Quotes

You open a newspaper and see a picture taken in a war somewhere, and there's a gun in somebody's hand. - Andrew Niccol

You have two choices when someone changes your work... You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it. I embraced it. Peter and I are good friends. - Andrew Niccol

We live vicariously through celebrities. People used to say that celebrities are America's royalty; now I think celebrities are the world's royalty. - Andrew Niccol

There's a vanity... Almost like Mafia guys who love 'The Godfather' and don't see it as an indictment against them. Some arms dealers will see this film and think it glorifies them. They'll just be questioning how authentic it is. - Andrew Niccol

The Wild West mentality is still strong in America... especially if you go to a place like Texas, where it's alive and well, or maybe unwell: 'No one's taking away our guns.' In New Zealand, no one has a handgun, and they aren't saying, 'Gee, I wish I had one.' I hope the United States takes note that the murder rate is lower where gun availability is lower. It seems obvious to me. - Andrew Niccol

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. - Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film... I think it's a truthful film, and the truth is political. 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. - Andrew Niccol

Normally what you do is that you start with three tanks and you would use replication and you computer generate the other tanks... But here, they were so available I could use real tanks. It was cheaper to get real tanks in the Czech Republic than to make the fake ones that I would normally use computer generated imagery to do. In fact, we had to call NATO and warn them about that scene, because it looked like a weapons build-up in the Czech Republic. - Andrew Niccol

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun. - Andrew Niccol

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