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

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" 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. "

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" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

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" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

" 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. "

" For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

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

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

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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. "

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

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" The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. "