Andrew Niccol Quotes

I can't convince anyone it isn't CGI... Actually, I went to the Czech Republic and found a guy who owns, privately, 100 Russian T-72 tanks. It was no problem to lend them to me, but he needed them back to sell to Libya. I also had to inform NATO we were filming there. Someone in the Pentagon could have been looking at satellite images and noticed an arms buildup.

- Andrew Niccol

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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

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

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