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" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

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" 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. "

" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

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

" 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. "

" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

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

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" 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. "

" It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. "

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

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

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

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

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" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

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

" But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. "

" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "