Duncan Jones Quotes

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• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  People, Trying, Way

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• The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.

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  Growing Up, People, Fiction

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• 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 and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

  Duncan Jones

  Real, Battle, Littles

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

  Duncan Jones

  Love Is, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Life and career kind of catches up with you.

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  Careers, Kind

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• I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.

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  Couple, Writing, Night

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• 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 science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

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  Smart, Two, Blade Runner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Character, Thinking, Blade Runner

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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 love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!

  Duncan Jones

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Duncan Jones Says WARCRAFT Is a First Contact Story Between Orcs and Humans; Talks Franchise Hopes" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. January 6, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Moon, Special

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• As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight years, and I'm still working. Feature films was not the end goal. Feature films was one of the stages. Getting to the point of the Coen brothers or Tarantino, where you're writing your own material and have the budget to do it properly, that's the end goal, and I'm close to that.

  Duncan Jones

  Brother, Writing, School

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• I'm a cruel man to myself.

  Duncan Jones

  Men

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

  Duncan Jones

  Children, Independent, Want

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• Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.

  Duncan Jones

  Fantastic, Rhythm

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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 that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.

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  Dad, Kids, Orange

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• When we first made this whole idea this was going to be calling card film [Moon] and it was going to give the opportunity to make my first feature film. But it turned out a lot better, we just couldn't stop ourselves from going into it, and we are very proud that it turned into something that people wanted to see.

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  Moon, Opportunity, Ideas

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

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  Stories, Pages, Sometimes

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

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  Shooting, Levels, Film

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• There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird effect on people. It creates a familiarity that is possibly not always justified. I think that's interesting and I think it's nice to be able to incorporate it into films, because most of us can relate to that now.

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  Nice, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with Warcraft in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

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  Hero, Unique, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Communication, Networking, Generations

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

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  Games, Fans, Gaming

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• 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.

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  Cute, Guy, Ugly

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• I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

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  Growing Up, Fun, Real

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• When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.

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  Character, People, Giving

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