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" I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing. "

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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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" I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films. "

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

" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "

" I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones. "

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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! "

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