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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

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

" 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 think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

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" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

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

" I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. "

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

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

" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

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

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

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" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

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" 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. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

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

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

" 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. "