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

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" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

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

" I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic. "

" It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on. "

" I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level. "

" I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. "

" 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. "

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

" I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right. "

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

" 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 was always bit of a jock. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a natural puzzle solver. "

" The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone. "

" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "

" I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid. "

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

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

" I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up. "

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

" I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "