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Cast is everything.
I'm a very practical person.
I don't ever blink, honestly.
It's hard writing screenplays.
I think sci-fi can easily be PG.
I think moviemakers are dramatists.
I have a healthy competitive nature.
The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
I love designing, and I still do it.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
I unfortunately do suffer for my art.
I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'
I am in a constant stage of development.
I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
Business fascinates me. It's very creative.
'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.
Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.
We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.
I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.
I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.
Once you crack the script, everything else follows.
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.
Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.
How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'
The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.
I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.
It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.
I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.
Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.