Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Robots are good at things that are structured.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
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