Philip K. Dick in 1981:
Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine, could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER. Thank you... and it is going to be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible.
Blade Runner IS a superb film. Also if you think about the time this was written most science fiction was still "white men in rocket ships" and most of it ignored the big questions and big ideas science fiction lends itself to so perfectly. The genre has come a long way since then, in no small part thanks to Philip K. Dick.
Also, I can't think of another example where an author seems to be more pleased with a film adaptation than their own work.
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