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" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

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" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

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

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

" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "

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

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

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

Science Fiction

" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

" 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. "