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" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

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" 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 like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

Black And White

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "

" 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. "

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" 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.' "

" Cast is everything. "