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" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

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" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

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

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" Cast is everything. "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

" 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. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

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

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. "

" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

" 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. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

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

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "