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" Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. "

John Rhys-Davies

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" When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in. "

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" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

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" I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish. "

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" We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high. "

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" How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? "

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" I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship. "

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" I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it. "

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" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "

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" I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. "

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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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" A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. "

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" Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. "

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" I love a good safari. "

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" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "

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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

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" I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career. "

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" Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. "

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" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "

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" To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. "

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" It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. "

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" I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. "

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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "

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" There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. "

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" With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. "

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" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "

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" I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it. "

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" When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. "

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" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "

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" I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much. "

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" Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil. "

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