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

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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. "

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

" I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones. "

" 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 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. "

" My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating. "

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

" My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working. "

" One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides. "

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

" I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was a sensitive boy. "

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

" Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. "

" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "