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" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

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

" 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. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "

" For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" 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 great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "

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

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

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

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

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

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

" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "

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

" 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. "

" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

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" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "

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

" I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. "

" That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "