Next week Time is going to run a piece about District 9. I won’t be writing it, because I’m not a movie critic. But I did have a chat with the director, Neill Blomkamp, and the piece will be using quotes from that conversation.

I was going to chop the interview down into manageable bits and post it here, and I did chop it down some, but frankly I enjoyed talking to Neill so much, and he was so open about his filmmaking process, I figured I’d just put the whole thing up.

Things we talk about: The death of the Halo film; the fact that the lead in District 9 is an old friend of Neill’s who had basically never acted on screen before; bovine aliens; the boringness of THX-1138; why his FX don’t look like other people’s; my wasted life.