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" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

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" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

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

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

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

" 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. "

" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "

" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "

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

" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "

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

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

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

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

" 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 think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" 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've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "

" Cast is everything. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

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

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "