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" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

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

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" For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made. "

" I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening. "

" I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones. "

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" I view myself still as a director. That's what I do. "

" 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. "

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" I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that. "

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