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" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

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

" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" 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. "

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" 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'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "

" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

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

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" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

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" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" 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. "

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" Fire is our first form of technology. "

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

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

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" The best stories come out of the truth. "