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" In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case. "

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" One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides. "

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" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "

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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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" The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone. "

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" Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up. "

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" I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level. "

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" Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films. "

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" I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right. "

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" I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me. "

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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 was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved. "

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" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "

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" You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow. "

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" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "

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" I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. "

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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 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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" I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "

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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 personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity. "

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" For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made. "

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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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" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "

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" I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure. "

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" You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. "

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" Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking. "

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" I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing. "

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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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