Duncan Jones Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Years, Work Out, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Looks, Seems

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

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

  Duncan Jones

  Aspect, Enjoy, Puzzles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Brother, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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

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• I had a real comfort with being on a set and in particular working with special effects and because of that background, it became much easier for me to base a first time feature film on a low budget cause I was sort of already knew how to do that.

  Duncan Jones

  Real, Special, Firsts

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• 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!

  Duncan Jones

  Alarms, Would Be, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Smart, Stories, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Couple, Men, Anecdotes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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 obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.

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  Moon, Film, Promotion

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Careers, Long, Chance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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 was really enthusiastic about it. He was also enthusiastic about the fact we'd remembered Outland and had remembered it fondly. I think, for him, it was like some kind of edification that there were people out there who loved his film. So, that was a really lovely feeling.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Moon, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some people come from a theatrical background and some people come from a writing background, but I directed commercials

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  Writing, Years, People

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• 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 a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing.

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  People, Dollars, Investing

  "Duncan Jones Interview Source Code". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. April 02, 2011.

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• When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.

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  Moon, Talking, People

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.

  Duncan Jones

  People, Giving, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Jealous, Guy, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Nice, Perfect, Guy

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• 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.

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  Character, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Character, Driven

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• 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.

  Duncan Jones

  Order, Needs, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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