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" I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience. "

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" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "

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" A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. "

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" I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing. "

" I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently. "

" Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. "

" All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. "

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" We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. "

" At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. "

" I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. "

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" I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done. "

" Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. "

" I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. "

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" The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life. "

" An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?' "

" The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake. "

" The world is sick of big IT things that don't work. "

" Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. "

" GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. "

" We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. "

" The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through. "

" I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. "