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" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

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" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" I am in a constant stage of development. "

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

" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

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

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

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

" I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers. "

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

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

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. "

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

" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "

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

" Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

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