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" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

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" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" 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. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

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" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

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" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

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

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" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

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

" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "