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I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

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In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

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I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

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I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

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Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

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One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

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I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

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I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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