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" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

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

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

" The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. "

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

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

" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

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

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

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" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

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

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

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

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

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

" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

" 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. "

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

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" 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'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "