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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.
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Duncan Jones
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Born:
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1971
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Steven Spielberg
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About
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Never
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
Art
People
Own
Think
Films
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Thurgood Marshall
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First
Films
State
Books
Telling
No Business
He
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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen
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Doing
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Right
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
Geoff Dyer
Today
Hurts
Consequences
Films
Bore
Physical
See
True
Learn
Always
How
How Much
Much
Violence
The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.
Henry Golding
You
People
Joy
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Perspective
Films
Broad
Characters
See
Gives
Stereotypical
Cultures
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Different
Different Cultures
Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
Jiang Wen
People
Water
Pure
Cocktail
Alcohol
Films
Other
Vodka
Like
Juice
Little
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves
Beautiful
Truth
Knowledge
Truth Is
Cinema
Important
Think
Consequences
Films
Andrew
Cost
Know
Terrifying
Often
Story
Which
Theme
Choice
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Larry
Second
Third
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
Kenneth Branagh
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Creative
World
Naughty
Invention
Energy
Think
Films
Entertaining
Shakespeare
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