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

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" I'm a natural puzzle solver. "

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" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

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" Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film. "

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" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

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