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I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

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I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

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I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

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Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

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One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

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I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

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On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

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In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

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I don't ever blink, honestly.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: November 30th, 1937

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