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

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" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

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

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

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

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "

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" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

" 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. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

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

" 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. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" Cast is everything. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better. "

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

" On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims. "

" 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. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" 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. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "