More human than human is our motto.

“Batty and his maker have a complex relationship. At the end of the scene, Batty kills Tyrell, and I decided I wanted to throw a curve in there before he does it. I wanted Batty to kiss him good-bye, not a peck on the cheek, but a real kiss. I mentioned it to Ridley, and he liked it. He said we’d give it a whirl. It lends the scene a strange sort of sexuality that’s ironic because there’s no point in having that in a robot. What struck me when I got to Los Angeles was that everybody there was so much into their sexuality, whatever that was - you have all kinds of varieties - and I thought, “What is all that about?” So I decided to play with that.” -Rutger Hauer in his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners

Blade Runner: Black Lotus “Artificial Souls”

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.

Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott

“All he’d wanted was the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do is sit there and watch him die.”