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" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "

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" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

Science Fiction

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

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "

" I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.' "

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

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

" I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

National Geographic

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

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

" 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. "

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

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

" The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" 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. "