Duncan Jones Quotes

I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

Duncan Jones

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• I just love dancing.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Love
  • Just
  • Dancing

• Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Darkness
  • Strangers

• Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • People
  • Up
  • Science

• If food were free, why work?

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Work
  • Why
  • Free

• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • Good
  • Dating

• I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Science