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" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

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" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

" I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "

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" 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. "

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" But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. "

" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "

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" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

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" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

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

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" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" 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. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

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" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" 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. "

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

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" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

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