Andrew Niccol
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"Andrew M. Niccol" is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, In Time, and Lord of War. He also wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay/Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. His films tend to explore social, cultural and political issues.(From: Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture

Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2006 pp. 43-67 / 10.1353/log.2006.0014)

His upcoming film Good Kill has been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

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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.

In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer.

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.

I actually had to deal with real arms dealers to get the film made, to get all [the] guns needed for the movie. When a guy said 'I can deliver you 50 tanks' — one private guy who owned 50 tanks in the Czech republic — and 'I'll get them there on Tuesday at 9 a.m.,' sure enough, there they are all [were] perfectly lined up.

I wouldn't make a very good arms dealer.

I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it.

It's so startling to know that the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations are the biggest arms dealers in the world, so they are really the.

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