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

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" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" 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. "

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

" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

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

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

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

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

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

" 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. "