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

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" Cast is everything. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

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

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

" I'm a very practical person. "

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

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. "

" That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "

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

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

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

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

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

" 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. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

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

" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "