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

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" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" 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. "

" 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 knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

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

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

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

" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" 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. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "