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" 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. "

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" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

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

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

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

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

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

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

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

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

" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

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

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

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

" 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. "

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

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

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

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

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

" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "