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Duncan Jones Quotes
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Duncan Jones
English
Director
Born:
May 30
,
1971
Always
Film
Love
Me
Think
You
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When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.
Duncan Jones
Me
You
Confused
School
Lost
Nice
Recognised
Person
Graduate
Graduate School
Upset
Different
Nice Person
Grumpy
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.
Duncan Jones
Work
Love
Never
Like
Sure
Spotlight
Going
Being
Actor
I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
Duncan Jones
Build
Own
Else
Someone
My Own
Legacy
Establish
Want
Wanted
Thing
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
Duncan Jones
Faith
Respect
Maturity
Treat
Catch
Audience
Up
Them
Certain
After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
Duncan Jones
Learning
Own
Films
Ring
Rings
Followed
Having
Instead
Fellowship
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Aesthetic
Opposed
Wanted
After
Unique
When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
Duncan Jones
Good
Book
People
Remember
Made
First
Own
Films
Rings
See
Beyond
Concern
First One
Read
Readership
Audience
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Go
Were
Jackson
Grew
Movies
Who
Tolkien
Peter
Peter Jackson
Right
I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.
Duncan Jones
Love
Films
Sold
Feel
Been
Short
Far
Games
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
Duncan Jones
You
Vision
Long
Out
About
Could
Clear
Clear Vision
Make
Just
Anything
Story
Film
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
Duncan Jones
Work
Character
Me
Matter
Will
Looking
Think
Ways
Characters
Intriguing
Kind
About
Empathetic
Come
Make
Narrative
Source
Trying
Any
Just
Automatically
Sensibilities
Story
Storytelling
Really
Play
I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.
Duncan Jones
Science
Looking
Books
New
Also
Science Fiction
Always
Lots
Up
Fiction
Fan
Movies
Fantasy
Games
Gaming
Growing
Growing Up
Played
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
Love
You
Hero
Heroes
Think
Sides
Signature
One Of The Things
About
Take
Put
Particular
Come
Most
Blizzard
Unexpected
Whenever
Warcraft
Places
Games
Unique
Play
Things
Twist
Player
For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.
Duncan Jones
Best
Me
Made
Runner
Blade
Blade Runner
Film
Ever
Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
Duncan Jones
Hero
About
Something
Empathetic
Him
Really
Elegant
Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
Duncan Jones
You
Science
Sometimes
Light
Beauty
Sense
Films
Crew
Runner
City
See
Seeing
Blade
Blade Runner
Like
Science Fiction
Around
Felt
Real
Were
Camera
Left
Get
Just
Where
Fiction
Breathing
Standing
Stands
Sudden
Right
Pan
Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.
Duncan Jones
Stage
Tabloids
Never
Name
Liked
Bowie
Because
Dad
Ever
My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
Duncan Jones
Me
Too Much
Parents
Own
Too
Back
Later
Joe
Drew
My Own
Attention
Name
Call
Did
Realising
Then
Much
Much Attention
Now
Now And Then
You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.
Duncan Jones
Me
You
Made
Seen
Party
Nothing
Way
Would
Follow
Able
Tabloids
Scene
Never
Had
Disappear
Because
Any
Which
I was always bit of a jock.
Duncan Jones
Bit
Jock
Always
My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
Duncan Jones
Work
Old
Films
Would
More
Animated
He
Narrative
Nonsensical
Camera
Than
Shoot
Shooting
Depended
Short
Little
Used
Figures
Wars
Using
Dad
Star
Keep
Star Wars
Film
Away
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.
Duncan Jones
Films
Sets
Others
Destined
Jobs
Run
Seemed
Like
Make
Occasionally
Around
Got
Odd
Odd Jobs
Up
Labyrinth
Acting
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Film
Film Sets
I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
Duncan Jones
Family
Me
Happy
School
College
Relieved
Some
Seemed
Scholarships
Come
Well
Got
Go
Were
Off
Grad
Grad School
Did
Senses
Soccer
Then
Film
Found
Play
Film School
Funky
I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
Duncan Jones
Me
Saw
Kid
Drawbacks
Fame
I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
Duncan Jones
Science
First
Bit
Geek
Science Fiction
Always
Fiction
Wanted
Film
Actually
When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.
Duncan Jones
You
College
Important
Everything
Seems
More
Than
Much
Really
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.
Duncan Jones
Science
World
Values
Beauty
Down
Think
Guard
Willing
About
More
Allow
Open
Takes
Talking
Science Fiction
Audience
Questioned
Up
Fiction
Them
Themselves
Much
Used
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
Duncan Jones
Me
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Trouble
Sense
Gets
Often
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