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" I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "

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" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "

" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

Science Fiction

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. "

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" 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. "

" 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 think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

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

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

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

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

" The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

National Geographic

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "