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

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" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" 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. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

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

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

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

" 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 wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "

" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

" The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. "

" 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. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "