How rare or hard is it to do a science fiction film thats not all action?
Rivera: I think it’s interesting to reflect on why science fiction films are the way they are and why they’re so different from science fiction literature. Science fiction films usually take place in a place like Los Angeles. To imagine that, there are always the skyscrapers, the flying cars and so a huge budget. Then you need a huge star, so then you get the same kind of cast of people that inhabit the future, the Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Will Smith. If you’re doing an independent or an outsider science fiction where you don’t need that huge budget, then you can have different people living in your future. So there’s a way in which visualizing the future is connected to the cast of the future and connected to the point of view of the future. With this film as a small-gauge, outsider sci-fi, I think I was able to focus it more on the ideas, less on movie stars and less on big action sequences. I’d say for me, I love the beginning of Blade Runner the most. I love getting to know the w
