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" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "

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" I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

" 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.' "

" Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

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

" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

" Cast is everything. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "

" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

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