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" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

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" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

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

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

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "

" 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 think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

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

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" 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. "

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

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" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

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

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

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

" 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. "

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

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

" 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. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

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

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