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" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

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

" I'm a very practical person. "

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

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

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

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

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

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

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

" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

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

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

Science Fiction

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually. "

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

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

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

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