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

~Duncan Jones

Topics: Being Biggest Casting Director Getting Jobs Right Think I Think

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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 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.

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

~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

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There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.

~Duncan Jones

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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 was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.

~Duncan Jones

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

~Duncan Jones

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Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

~Duncan Jones

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: May 30th, 1971

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