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" When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person. "
Duncan Jones
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" It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings. "
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" You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. "
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" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "
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" I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. "
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" That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game. "
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" I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved. "
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" Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?' "
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" It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies. "
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" I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile. "
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" Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up. "
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" My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed. "
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" I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school. "
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" Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more. "
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" Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him. "
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" When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. "
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" I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level. "
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" I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do. "
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" I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic. "
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" I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons. "
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" Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well. "
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" I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity. "
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" As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically. "
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" Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking. "
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" Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film. "
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" Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films. "
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" I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to. "
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" I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL. "
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" I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far. "
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" I'm a natural puzzle solver. "
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