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" 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. "

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" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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

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

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

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

" 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. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" 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.' "

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

" I'm a very practical person. "

" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" 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. "

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

" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "

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

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

" 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. "

" 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 started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

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

" 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. "

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "