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When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

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Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

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I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

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Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

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The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

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Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

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I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

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I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.

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I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.

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The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: November 30th, 1937

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