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" My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was. "

Duncan Jones
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" I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL. "
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" When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book. "
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" You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. "
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" Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys. "
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" After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.' "
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" One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides. "
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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. "
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" Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff. "
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" 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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" I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films. "
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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. "
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" You only get one shot to do a first feature. "
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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. "
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" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "
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" Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away. "
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" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "
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" I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga. "
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" I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. "
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" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "
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" Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. "
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" I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. "
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" I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones. "
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" I do have a somewhat unique upbringing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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