Duncan Jones

“I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.”

“I'm a natural puzzle solver.”

“I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.”

“I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.”

“You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.”

“The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.”

“I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.”

“Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.”

“I was always bit of a jock.”

“Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it.”

“I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.”

“I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.”

“I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.”

“I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.”

“Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense.”

“The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.”

“I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.”

“I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.”

“Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.”

“Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.”