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" I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning. "

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" Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away. "

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" When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book. "

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" My sense of humor often gets me in trouble. "

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

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" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "

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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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" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "

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" Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times. "

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" Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film. "

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

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" I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me. "

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" I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi. "

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" I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later. "

Duncan Jones

" My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was. "

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" I was always bit of a jock. "

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" Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film. "

Duncan Jones

" 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. "

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

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" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "

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" 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. "

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" I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity. "

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" 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. "

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" I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.' "

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" Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it. "

Duncan Jones

" 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. "

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

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" I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash. "

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" 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. "

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