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" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

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

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

National Geographic

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" 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. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" 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. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic. "

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

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

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" 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. "

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

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

Science Fiction

" 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. "