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

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

" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "

" I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. "

" I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning. "

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

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

" Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film. "

" I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity. "

" Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "

" Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times. "

" For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made. "

" Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys. "

" You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow. "

" I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "

" My sense of humor often gets me in trouble. "

" Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. "

" My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating. "

" I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me. "

" I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. "

" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "

" It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies. "

" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "

" I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. "