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Duncan Jones

English Director

Born: May 30, 1971

Always Film Love Me Think You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock Andrew Haigh Beeban Kidron Danny Boyle Edgar Wright Roger Deakins Sam Taylor-Johnson Stacey Dooley

My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working. Duncan Jones

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I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort. Duncan Jones

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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later. Duncan Jones

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away. Duncan Jones

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I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do. Duncan Jones

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In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case. Duncan Jones

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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. Duncan Jones

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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. Duncan Jones

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Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits. Duncan Jones

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

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My family is very international. Duncan Jones

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I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.' Duncan Jones

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. Duncan Jones

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I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble. Duncan Jones

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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott. Duncan Jones

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I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time. Duncan Jones

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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating. Duncan Jones

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