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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 know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent! "

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

" You only get one shot to do a first feature. "

" 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?' "

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

" One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart. "

" 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. "

" My sense of humor often gets me in trouble. "

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

" I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid. "

" I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.' "

" Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film. "

" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "

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

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

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

" It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I was always bit of a jock. "

" 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. "

" Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more. "

" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "

" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "

" 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. "

" That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game. "

" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "