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" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "

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" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "

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

" I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

" 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. "

" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

" 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. "

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming. "

" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

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