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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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" Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city. "

" I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic. "

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

" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed. "

" I'd love to do a Western. "

" Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. "

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

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" Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. "

" When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person. "

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

" There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in. "

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" I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school. "

" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "

" I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi. "

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" I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. "

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