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

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" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "

" Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city. "

" I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity. "

" I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "

" My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back. "

" I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction. "

" Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. "

" I view myself still as a director. That's what I do. "

" I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile. "

" I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films. "

" Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff. "

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

" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

" 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! "

" Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film. "

" There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in. "

" The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to. "

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

" That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game. "

" I was a sensitive boy. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to do a Western. "

" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

" I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved. "

" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "

" I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. "

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

" I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters. "