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" I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent! "

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" When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person. "

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" I was a sensitive boy. "

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" It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

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" When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book. "

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" I'd love to do a Western. "

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" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

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" My family is very international. "

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" 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. "

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" I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone. "

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" I view myself still as a director. That's what I do. "

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" 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. "

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

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