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" I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. "

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" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. "

" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

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

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

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

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

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

" I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" 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 watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "