Latest Duncan Jones Quotes from Interviews

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• I really don't see CG as a goal in its own right. I really do believe it's a tool. In the advertising industry I did a fair amount of CG, so I appreciate it for the tool that it is, and I think technologically where it's at now, you really can achieve most of your visual goals with either it or a mixture of it and practical effects.

  Duncan Jones

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

  Source: film.avclub.com

• In my opinion, having worked in the games industry and still keeping in touch with a lot of those guys, there was definitely a time when they saw themselves as the little brother of the film industry. But they kind of went off in a different direction and now see themselves, I think, as being far more interesting and ahead of the film industry. They haven't just caught up. They've gone off in a different direction and exceeded the film industry.

  Duncan Jones

  Brother, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Every time you want to reset your set and pull walls out and reset the lighting, you're burning up half an hour to an hour, and when you're trying to keep to a schedule, you're constantly having to reassess what's worth it and what you're going to have to give up in order to keep on schedule.

  Duncan Jones

  Giving Up, Wall, Order

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Duncan Jones

  Aspect, Enjoy, Puzzles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Looks, Seems

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Nice, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Communication, Networking, Generations

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Keys, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a cruel man to myself.

  Duncan Jones

  Men

  Source: collider.com

• You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.

  Duncan Jones

  Years, Work Out, Three

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Hero, Unique, Player

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Cute, Guy, Ugly

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, People, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, Fun, Real

  Source: collider.com

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

  Duncan Jones

  Games, Fans, Gaming

  Source: collider.com

• Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to 40 million and do something which is much more character driven, but still create a sort of visual spectacle around it. That is what I'd like to do.

  Duncan Jones

  Sweet, Character, Driven

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Blade Runner

• I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Opportunity, Giving

• My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Two

• And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with. It was a perfect match [with Sam Rockwell]; I am so thrilled I got to work with him. He is a really nice and incredible guy.

  Duncan Jones

  Nice, Perfect, Guy

• We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we actually shot the films so we were able to really break down the script and kind of work through all of the improvisational things that he wanted to do, so he had a chance to really feel his way through before we actually shot it and I think that helped a lot.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Able, Way

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, People, Fiction

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Moon, Special

• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Moon, Opportunity, Ideas