Duncan Jones Quotes

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• Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more!  There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would…
• I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But…
• Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many…
• Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm
• The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles…
• We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want…
• For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart…
• I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.
• Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A…
• I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get…
• Obviously, there's a big homage to Outland in Moon. I obviously had Ridley Scott's response, which was great. But Peter Hyams really loved Moon and…
• I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in…
• You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where…
• I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.
• Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
• I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.
• You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have…
• I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I…
• When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys…
• You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in…

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