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" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "

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" 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. "

Duncan Jones

" I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones. "

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" I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid. "

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" 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. "

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" I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning. "

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" There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in. "

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" I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. "

Duncan Jones

" I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it. "

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" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

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" I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "

Duncan Jones

" 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. "

Duncan Jones

" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "

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

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" 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. "

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

Duncan Jones

" I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "

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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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" When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. "

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

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" After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.' "

Duncan Jones

" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

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" Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking. "

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" I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL. "

Duncan Jones

" I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.' "

Duncan Jones

" 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. "

Duncan Jones

" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "

Duncan Jones

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

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" I view myself still as a director. That's what I do. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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