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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

National Geographic

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

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

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" 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.' "

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

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

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

" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

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

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

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

Do The Right Thing

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

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "