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" It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. "

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" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

" 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. "

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

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

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

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" 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. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

Black And White

" 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. "

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

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

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

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" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" 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. "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

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

" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "