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" 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. "

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

" I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "

" 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'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "

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

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

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

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

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

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

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

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" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" 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. "

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" 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. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

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