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" I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. "

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" 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. "

" I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to do a Western. "

" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "

" I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. "

" I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. "

" J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist. "

" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game. "

" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "

" Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. "

" 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. "

" The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone. "

" 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. "

" I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile. "

" I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time. "

" I was a sensitive boy. "

" When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person. "

" My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed. "

" I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me. "

" I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid. "

" You only get one shot to do a first feature. "

" I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL. "

" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

" My family is very international. "

" It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil. "

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