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" Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films. "

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" 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. "

Duncan Jones

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

Duncan Jones

" I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do. "

Duncan Jones

" Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. "

Duncan Jones

" Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up. "

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" 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. "

Duncan Jones

" I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else. "

Duncan Jones

" One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart. "

Duncan Jones

" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

Duncan Jones

" I was always bit of a jock. "

Duncan Jones

" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

Duncan Jones

" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "

Duncan Jones

" I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters. "

Duncan Jones

" That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game. "

Duncan Jones

" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "

Duncan Jones

" When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. "

Duncan Jones

" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "

Duncan Jones

" Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city. "

Duncan Jones

" In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case. "

Duncan Jones

" 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. "

Duncan Jones

" J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist. "

Duncan Jones

" I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi. "

Duncan Jones

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

Duncan Jones

" I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time. "

Duncan Jones

" My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back. "

Duncan Jones

" One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides. "

Duncan Jones

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

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" 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. "

Duncan Jones