Duncan Jones Quotes
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I love my sleep.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?
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I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
