Duncan Jones Quotes
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I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.
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'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.
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I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
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It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.
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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
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I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.
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I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
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I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.
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I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.
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I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
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Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
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I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
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I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.
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I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
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Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
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I was a sensitive boy.