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I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.
They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.
On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.
I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.
You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.
The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.
I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.
Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.
Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'
Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.
I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.
If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.