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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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" I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. "

" 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.' "

" Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff. "

" As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically. "

" 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 a sensitive boy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning. "

" 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. "

" I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world. "

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

" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "

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

" 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. "

" I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later. "

" My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back. "

" I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far. "

" I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time. "

" I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. "

" 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! "