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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.
When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.
When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.
Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.
What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.
Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.
In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'
MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.
I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.
I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'
Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.
I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.
I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.
'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.