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

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

" It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on. "

" The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to. "

" J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent! "

" 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.' "

" I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters. "

" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "

" Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more. "

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

" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "

" I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me. "

" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "

" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

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" I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic. "

" I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing. "

" My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed. "

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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. "

" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

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

" Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys. "

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

" I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school. "