“But then, right after the film came out, I remember picking up a newspaper and reading a review where a critic called Blade Runner a ‘fascinating failure.’ That stuck in my craw. I wish I could find that fellow right up to this day, because, to put it tritely, I’d tell him, ‘Au contraire, baby. Au contraire. Blade Runner is not a fascinating failure.
It did take a long time to catch on, though.”
- William Sanderson, quoted in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner