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" I'd love to do a Western. "
Duncan Jones
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" 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. "
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" One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart. "
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" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "
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" Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking. "
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" I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do. "
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" I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films. "
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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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