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" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

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" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

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

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

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

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

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

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" 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. "

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

" 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. "

" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" 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. "

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" 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. "