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" I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far. "

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" I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up. "

" I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening. "

" I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right. "

" Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff. "

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

" I was always bit of a jock. "

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

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

" I'd love to do a Western. "

" I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi. "

" Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film. "

" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "

" 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. "

" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "

" You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. "

" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "

" I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that. "

" Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times. "

" I was a sensitive boy. "

" Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city. "

" 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. "

" I'm a natural puzzle solver. "

" I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart. "

" I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. "

" Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. "

" Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films. "