Rutger Hauer: On Blade Runner

"I felt that we had gotten a film with more layers than we were ever thinking of. I knew right away that this was a very different and special movie. Life is how you look at it, and Blade Runner decided to look at it in a poetic but dark way and, at the same time, with a lot of wit. It was not consumer-ready crap and it was not a fast-paced, science-fiction thriller. Instead, it was thoughtful and slow moving, and it challenged audiences to enter its world. This is a great movie---one that is beautiful, dark, wicked, poetic, exotic and beautiful."

-Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories Of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, And Blade Runners (p129-130, 135)-