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" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

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" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

" The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic. "

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

" It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. "

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "

" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "