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" There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. "

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" What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters. "

" GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. "

" It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos. "

" I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. "

" We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. "

" I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing. "

" Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing. "

" The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer. "

" I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. "

" I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. "

" If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext. "

" I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently. "

" Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her. "

" We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. "

" New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. "

" I have a short attention span. "

" My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. "

" The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake. "

" All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. "

" I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set. "

" Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. "

" We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. "

" The world is sick of big IT things that don't work. "

" I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. "

" Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. "

" I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience. "

" Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. "

" A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. "

" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "

" Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. "