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

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" I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "

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

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

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" 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. "

" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

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" A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly. "

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" The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. "

" But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. "

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

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" 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. "

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