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" Fire is our first form of technology. "

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" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly. "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

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

" The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. "

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

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

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" 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. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

" '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. "

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

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

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

" It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. "

" Cast is everything. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "

" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "