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" There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming. "

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" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

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

" 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. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic. "

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

" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

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

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

Science Fiction

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" 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 people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "

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

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

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

" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

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

Black And White

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

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

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

" 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. "