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.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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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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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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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 believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.
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From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
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My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
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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.
