Duncan Jones Quotes
-
I was a sensitive boy.
-
Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it.
-
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.
-
I'm a natural puzzle solver.
-
I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
-
I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.
-
J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.
-
Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
-
It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
-
I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.
-
As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
-
Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
-
When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.
-
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
-
I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.
-
I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
-
I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'
-
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
-
Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.
-
I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.
-
Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.
-
My family is very international.
-
I was always bit of a jock.
-
I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.