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" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

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" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

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

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

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

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

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" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

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

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. "

" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

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

" For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. "

" 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. "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

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

" '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. "

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

" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

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

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

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

" 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. "