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" I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved. "

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

" 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 was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "

" 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. "

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

" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "

" It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on. "

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

" 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 do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

" I love the 'what if' nature of 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. "

" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "

" 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. "

" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "

" 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. "

" I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "

" I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing. "

" One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "