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" I'm a natural puzzle solver. "
Duncan Jones
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" My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working. "
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" It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil. "
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" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "
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" When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. "
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" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "
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" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "
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" When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book. "
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" You only get one shot to do a first feature. "
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" Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times. "
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" I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. "
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" I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me. "
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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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" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "
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" Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. "
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" I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it. "
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" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "
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" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "
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" I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films. "
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" Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away. "
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" I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time. "
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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've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do. "
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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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" Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed. "
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" I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else. "
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" I was a sensitive boy. "
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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 went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "
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" I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "
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