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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.
I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.