Name: Ad Astra Director James Gray Reveals Pop Culture Influences (Nerdist News Edition)
Uploaded: 2019-10-19T20:05:39.000Z
Duration: 4 min 53 s
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some of your sci-fi inspirations for the movie?

- You know, I'm a child of the seventies.

I was a big fan of watching Star Trek on television,

To tell you the truth, it's not really movies

and it's too light to see the stars at night.

and it was the first time we could see the stars.

something larger, more vast, more beautiful.

- And it ties to the name of the movie, right? Ad Astra.

But that's not the whole phrase, you know.

- No, I did not know that. - The whole sentence

because the idea is, it's beautiful to look outward,

- That touches the soul, that answer. (laughs)

to look at us, maybe disturbed to see the film.

The whole film is trying to make sure that

because I think the film is very hopeful,

- [James Gray] We kind of are, aren't we?

- Yeah, but that's what makes us beautiful and unique.

You know, there's a great quote I once heard

He said, "imperfection allows us to breathe."

And it's captured very well in the movie.

- Space pirates are attacking your vehicle.

You're on the moon, you're traversing the moon.

You don't care about what's in the rover, do you?

Aren't you more important than a machine?

rich in natural resources. - [Dr. Moo] M-hm.

but how are you gonna be able to enforce those treaties?

you're probably gonna get some lunar pirates, too,

- Yeah. I know you recently became an expert

on the lunar tubes, the caves that exist.

- Expert? I wouldn't call myself an expert in anything.

- Do you think that the space pirates may hide there?

have the safe haven from another part of the world

There's all these, maybe, tunnels, under the moon,

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