Duncan Jones Quotes

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

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 think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

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'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 the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.

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 Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

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.

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 stories and anecdotes.

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 to do.

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen, ' 'Where Eagles Dare, ' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.