Duncan Jones quotes

Duncan Jones is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work in science fiction. His debut feature "Moon" received critical acclaim and showcased his unique storytelling style. He has continued to direct innovative films such as "Source Code" and "Warcraft," earning recognition in the film industry. Here are 30 of his quotes:

When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.

Duncan Jones

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I'm a cruel man to myself.

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Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

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

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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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I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.

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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.

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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

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My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

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

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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.

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

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

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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.

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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

Duncan Jones

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.

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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.

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