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" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

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" When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

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

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "

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" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

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

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" 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. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

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

" For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. "

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" 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. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "