Duncan Jones Quotes
Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.
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I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.
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I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
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Nothing of that which was gained by fraud can go to the liberation of his soul. Let his wealth be divided among the workmen of this our building, and the poorer servants of our palace.
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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
