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" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

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" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

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

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

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

" 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.' "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" 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. "

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

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

" I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

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

" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" 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. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "