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

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" On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

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

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "

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

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

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

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

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

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

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

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

" Cast is everything. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" 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. "

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

" 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. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

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

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "