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" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

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" I'm a very practical person. "

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

Science Fiction

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

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

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

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" 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. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "

" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

" I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

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

" 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. "