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" After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.' "

" As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically. "

" Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it. "

" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "

" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "

" Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film. "

" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "

" Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys. "

" Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. "

" For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made. "

" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "

" Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times. "

" Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films. "

" Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more. "

" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "

" I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later. "

" I'd love to do a Western. "

" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

" I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent! "

" I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me. "

" I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing. "

" I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school. "

" I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it. "

" I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening. "

" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "

" I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else. "

" I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that. "

" I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far. "

" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "

" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "

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