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" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "

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

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" 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. "

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

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

" I'm a very practical person. "

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

Black And White

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic. "

" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "

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

" 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. "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

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

" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

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

Science Fiction

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

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

" Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "