Duncan Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.
-- Duncan Jones

#Moon #Film #Promotion
I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.
-- Duncan Jones

#Men #Thinking #Games
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.
-- Duncan Jones

#Dad #Kids #Orange
You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing.
-- Duncan Jones

#People #Dollars #Investing
Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.
-- Duncan Jones

#People #Trying #Way
I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.
-- Duncan Jones

#Thinking #Expectations #Degrees
You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.
-- Duncan Jones

#Thinking #Knowing #People
There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.
-- Duncan Jones

#Order #Needs #Kind
One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.
-- Duncan Jones

#Shooting #Levels #Film
Life and career kind of catches up with you.
-- Duncan Jones

#Careers #Kind
Everyone wants to know what you want to work on and everyone wants to pitch you what they're working on. And that's just part of the process. And hopefully, at some point you find someone of like minds and you make a film.
-- Duncan Jones

#Mind #Want #Film
You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.
-- Duncan Jones

#People #Giving #Atmosphere
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.
-- Duncan Jones

#Children #Independent #Want
Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
-- Duncan Jones

#Stories #Pages #Sometimes
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.
-- Duncan Jones

#Couple #Men #Anecdotes
Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm
-- Duncan Jones

#Fantastic #Rhythm
The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.
-- Duncan Jones

#Real #Battle #Fiction
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.
-- Duncan Jones

#Smart #Stories #Want
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.
-- Duncan Jones

#Smart #Two #Blade Runner
I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.
-- Duncan Jones

#Love Is #Thinking #Ideas
Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!
-- Duncan Jones

#Alarms #Would Be #World
I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.
-- Duncan Jones

#Careers #Long #Chance
Obviously, there's a big homage to Outland in Moon. I obviously had Ridley Scott's response, which was great. But Peter Hyams really loved Moon and was really enthusiastic about it. He was also enthusiastic about the fact we'd remembered Outland and had remembered it fondly. I think, for him, it was like some kind of edification that there were people out there who loved his film. So, that was a really lovely feeling.
-- Duncan Jones

#Thinking #Moon #People
I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.
-- Duncan Jones

#Jealous #Guy #Fans
I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.
-- Duncan Jones

#Couple #Writing #Night
Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more!Â There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!
-- Duncan Jones

#Jobs #Thinking #People

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