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" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

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" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

Science Fiction

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "