Duncan Jones quote: "Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys."

Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a s...
DUNCAN JONES

I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a ...
DUNCAN JONES

One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their game...
DUNCAN JONES

Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to ju...
DUNCAN JONES

For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.
DUNCAN JONES

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera ...
DUNCAN JONES

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
DUNCAN JONES

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have ...
DUNCAN JONES

I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So ...
DUNCAN JONES

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
DUNCAN JONES

I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying ...
DUNCAN JONES

Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR pro...
DUNCAN JONES

I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
DUNCAN JONES

I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was pl...
DUNCAN JONES

I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and t...
DUNCAN JONES

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' ...
DUNCAN JONES

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind u...
DUNCAN JONES

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o...
DUNCAN JONES

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or ...
DUNCAN JONES

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'O...
DUNCAN JONES

I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with m...
DUNCAN JONES

It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
DUNCAN JONES

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
DUNCAN JONES

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be ...
DUNCAN JONES

I'm a natural puzzle solver.
DUNCAN JONES

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
DUNCAN JONES

The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out o...
DUNCAN JONES

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being a...
DUNCAN JONES

I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.
DUNCAN JONES

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

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's ...
DUNCAN JONES

The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more ...
DUNCAN JONES

In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it...
DUNCAN JONES

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
DUNCAN JONES

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - al...
DUNCAN JONES

I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also...
DUNCAN JONES

I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I&#...
DUNCAN JONES

I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.
DUNCAN JONES

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own ...
DUNCAN JONES

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
DUNCAN JONES

My motto - sans limites.
ISADORA DUNCAN

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and f...
ARNE DUNCAN

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN

We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
GLEN DUNCAN

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Ever...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover...
JEFF DUNCAN

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential...
JEFF DUNCAN

There are signs that the long-term drivers of prosperity are weakening. The loss of our competitive ...
ALAN DUNCAN

Brown is desperately scrabbling around for purpose and identity and facing a struggle.
ALAN DUNCAN

I think when he next stands up in the House of Commons whenever he dares he is going to be absolutel...
ALAN DUNCAN

The government may have won in court, but the questions in Parliament are only just beginning. The p...
ALAN DUNCAN

[Tory MPs breezed into the meeting as if it was their birthday party.] We love it! ... rah, rah, rah...
ALAN DUNCAN

the Government may have won in court, but the questions in Parliament are only just beginning. Havin...
ALAN DUNCAN

I'm absolutely astonished at the 'no wrongdoing' judgment. This was an essentially deceitful plan. [...
ALAN DUNCAN

This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money fr...
ALAN DUNCAN

This is not being aimed at children. This is a media platform that's going to appeal to adults of al...
ALAN DUNCAN

This problem is entirely of the Chancellor's making and, with the deteriorating public finances, he ...
ALAN DUNCAN

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.
DUNCAN SHEIK

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN

I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless...
GLEN DUNCAN

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a ve...
ISADORA DUNCAN

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
ARNE DUNCAN

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with th...
BARRY DUNCAN

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with t...
BARRY DUNCAN

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the ma...
ISADORA DUNCAN

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.
GLEN DUNCAN

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performanc...
ISADORA DUNCAN

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the conseq...
ISADORA DUNCAN

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks t...
ISADORA DUNCAN

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its...
ISADORA DUNCAN

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
ISADORA DUNCAN

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
ISADORA DUNCAN

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words a...
ISADORA DUNCAN

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and ...
ISADORA DUNCAN

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
ISADORA DUNCAN

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take n...
ISADORA DUNCAN

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with the...
BARRY DUNCAN

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhy...
ISADORA DUNCAN

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
DUNCAN HINES

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living con...
ISADORA DUNCAN

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
ISODORE DUNCAN

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've...
TIM DUNCAN

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
JEFF DUNCAN

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They woul...
ARNE DUNCAN

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little...
ISADORA DUNCAN

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
DUNCAN SHEIK

The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being...
GLEN DUNCAN

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
ISADORA DUNCAN

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
ISADORA DUNCAN

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a hug...
DUNCAN SHEIK

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But ...
SANDY DUNCAN

When switchover starts to kick in, I think there's a world of opportunity in that. If we can carry o...
ANDY DUNCAN

We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My ...
ANDY DUNCAN

This won't be another digital repeats channel -- More4 aims to make a significant public service con...
ANDY DUNCAN

We're excited about our launch line-up and convinced More4 represents a significant extension of cho...
ANDY DUNCAN

Channel 4 has been at the top of its creative game in 2005. Success breeds success and, as a result ...
ANDY DUNCAN

If independents push too hard there is no alternative.
ANDY DUNCAN

If advertisers are spending tens of millions of pounds on product placement, they will want to shape...
ANDY DUNCAN

I think there are two issues,
ANDY DUNCAN

We have created this scholarship as a lasting tribute, and I hope a fitting one, to Richard's memory...
ANDY DUNCAN

I will not let Channel 4 become another Sainsbury or M&S.
ANDY DUNCAN

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is ma...
TIM DUNCAN

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren'...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

It's perfectly reasonable for someone to be hesitant to share their personal information with th...
JEFF DUNCAN

Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the hara...
JEFF DUNCAN

Fighting about issues [from] 25 years ago robs our children of resources, which are already scarce.
ARNE DUNCAN

We've been able to do things - for example, close schools for academic failure. It is hugely difficu...
ARNE DUNCAN

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our childre...
ARNE DUNCAN

This is important to parents. There's never been a spotlight on this, and that's a mistake. I think ...
ARNE DUNCAN

We have to say this will not go on.
ARNE DUNCAN

With innovative programs like Nourish for Knowledge and partnerships with organizations like the Gre...
ARNE DUNCAN

It is unbelievable that guys can run up and down like it's the Wild West with assault rifles.
ARNE DUNCAN

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools i...
ARNE DUNCAN

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,
ALLISON DUNCAN

I'm glad they didn't tell me that's what it was, ... All they said was, he didn't bring the car back...
ALLISON DUNCAN

Whatever this test leads to is still unknown right now, but I will always be able to say that I got ...
ALLISON DUNCAN

What I want to do is have a good, solid racing background. I don't want to move up into the Busch or...
ALLISON DUNCAN

It was a very successful year for us. I don't anybody was really expecting us to contend for the cha...
ALLISON DUNCAN

No, it definitely isn't me against Sarah, ... It's just that we've both been racing out on the West ...
ALLISON DUNCAN

It's quite an experience, ... The car is only 500 pounds heavier, but it felt much bigger. Definitel...
ALLISON DUNCAN

We have been talking with several companies that are interested in sponsoring female drivers, ... Th...
ALLISON DUNCAN

Hopefully, that right one is me.
ALLISON DUNCAN

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being...
DUNCAN SHEIK

As an avid hunter, outdoor enthusiast, and life member of the NRA, I understand the importance of pr...
JEFF DUNCAN

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
DUNCAN SHEIK

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to ...
JEFF DUNCAN

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who...
TIM DUNCAN

Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human withi...
GLEN DUNCAN

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w...
GLEN DUNCAN

I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position ...
GLEN DUNCAN

A criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida threatens U.S. national security interests with Cuban migra...
JEFF DUNCAN

The kids are playing decent, coming along slowly. It's always nice to win a tournament.
BRYAN DUNCAN

We're getting better. We're still not having our regular practices -- with the weather -- but we're ...
BRYAN DUNCAN

It's a tremendous feeling, as you can hear the roar in that locker room, and that's what it's all ab...
BRYAN DUNCAN

I think there was just that eye contact, where we both kind of knew what it was all about, but we bo...
BRYAN DUNCAN

We've been composed all year and we didn't see any reason to change that, so we were confident that ...
BRYAN DUNCAN

I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being playe...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots foll...
DUNCAN SHEIK

We had 2,000 students then.
BOB DUNCAN

This is a different concept than anything that's gone through there previously. It could work.
BOB DUNCAN

We're not talking about tens of thousands, but it's significant.
BOB DUNCAN

Clearly, something more needs to be done. The hog population down there is exploding.
BOB DUNCAN

The girls rode beautifully today. Auburn is a very good opponent and we knew that coming in. Everyon...
BOO DUNCAN

The hunt seat team just blazed through the day. We are looking forward to facing Auburn tomorrow. Th...
BOO DUNCAN

We are very excited about tomorrow. We rode really well today and we are back in the championship ro...
BOO DUNCAN

I believe we are well prepared for this competition. We are excited that we will get to take some of...
BOO DUNCAN

Our western team was phenomenal and pulled us ahead. I was very disappointed in how the hunt team lo...
BOO DUNCAN

It was a disappointing loss for us, but as a whole, the team rode well and the scores were close, it...
BOO DUNCAN

We were a little slow starting out this morning and made some mistakes that lost us. Georgia rode ve...
BOO DUNCAN

It was disappointing to not make it further on the western side but we had good competitions both da...
BOO DUNCAN

Coming in as the No. 2 seed in hunt and No. 6 in western, we are in good positions. The format is di...
BOO DUNCAN

WE started out slow in the early competitions but we were able to build momentum and we rode very we...
BOO DUNCAN

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I...
GLEN DUNCAN

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot whe...
TIM DUNCAN

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his drib...
TIM DUNCAN

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
ARNE DUNCAN

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc r...
DUNCAN SHEIK

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguis...
TIM DUNCAN

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
ROBERT DUNCAN

If only I could have got the second one. (The first one) felt good and I didn't think it would bounc...
CAROL DUNCAN

When you're looking at risk, you're always doing an educated guess.
CAROL DUNCAN

We wanted to get them back. It was payback time. I wanted them to feel the emotions I felt that day.
CAROL DUNCAN

The goal is to give respite and support to the care givers, and to be able to keep people in their h...
CAROL DUNCAN

Currently we have people who are assessing their clients to find out who can be monitored over the t...
CAROL DUNCAN

We just hired a new nurse to take on this job, and we expect to have clients on the program by Octob...
CAROL DUNCAN

I'll do what it takes to win. We knew Missouri State had strong guards and that my team might need s...
CAROL DUNCAN

When you're first starting, we call them lessons, not losses.
CARLOS DUNCAN

They need to be dressed properly.
CARLOS DUNCAN

George is probably as talented or more talented than all the national champions I've had put togethe...
CARLOS DUNCAN

You ought to see the belt he won. It's like the ones you see on TV.
CARLOS DUNCAN

He really looked good. You hate to say a loss is a good loss but he looked like he belonged with the...
CARLOS DUNCAN

Honestly, the ladies who come in here generally work a little harder than the guys. Boxing is a man'...
CARLOS DUNCAN

Sara is a pretty girl and her mom didn't want her face to get cut up.
CARLOS DUNCAN

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with ...
ARNE DUNCAN

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vege...
ISADORA DUNCAN

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
ISADORA DUNCAN

Despite suspicions that do exist, it is working. Realignment and recognition are coming together - v...
ALAN DUNCAN

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty wit...
RONALD DUNCAN

Hopefully, I'm not preaching to an empty room.
DEREK DUNCAN

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord p...
DUNCAN SHEIK

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'
SANDY DUNCAN

I support American energy production, and it will be produced by companies - Exxon, BP, Shell - and ...
JEFF DUNCAN

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and ...
ISADORA DUNCAN

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is...
ROBERT DUNCAN

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because t...
LINDSAY DUNCAN

It's sort of a 'Little Engine That Could' story. Why would you open a doughnut shop when all the oth...
DUNCAN MCKENZIE

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
ISADORA DUNCAN

The gallery is fantastic. It's beautiful with a great collection of unusual objects.
DUNCAN WEBB

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruse...
DUNCAN SHEIK

I don't know if there's another sport that has the parallel like getting the first goal in a hockey ...
CHRIS DUNCAN

The data is pretty extensive that pre-school training produces markedly increased earning ability wh...
GREG DUNCAN

We have two religions in ECUSA and they cannot coexist...
ROBERT DUNCAN

I think America is less safe on a lot fronts, and I disagree with the release of the information fro...
JEFF DUNCAN

Like every other car guy, I've watched 'The Fast and the Furious,' and I want to go out ...
TIM DUNCAN

This is a superb piece. Of course, we are absolutely delighted that it brought the price it did.
DUNCAN MCLEAN

There's nothing cuter than a baby penguin.
LYNN DUNCAN

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

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Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

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