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My family is very international.

~Duncan Jones

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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

~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

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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

~Duncan Jones

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I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

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I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.

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I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

~Duncan Jones

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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

~Duncan Jones

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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

~Duncan Jones

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I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

~Duncan Jones

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: May 30th, 1971

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