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

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" 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. "

" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "

" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

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

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

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

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

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

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

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

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

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

" 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. "

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

" 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. "

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

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

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

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

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" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

" 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. "

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

" Cast is everything. "

" 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. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "