Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Duncan Jones Quotes
Adaptation and OriginalityArt And CreativityAudience and Reception When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
ArtCinemaImaginationRealismTechnology Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
GenreHuman StoriesIntrospectionNostalgiaScience Fiction It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
AutonomyCreativityDecision MakingFrustration My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
ChangeConfusionDecision MakingGrowthRomance I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
HappinessIndependencePrideSelf Reliance I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
FamilyHumorIdentityMediaMusic Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.
ChallengesCreativityInnovationPersistenceRisk Taking Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
EleganceEmpathyHeroism Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
AmbitionIndependenceInnovationOriginalitySelf-Determination I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
AcceptanceFocus on craftIndifference to famePerseverancePersonal Growth Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.
ArtistryCreativityFilm-makingImpactInnovation Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
Career PathChildhood ExperiencesDestinyFamily InfluenceFilm Industry Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
CreativityDesignInfluenceScience FictionTechnology I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.
CreativityImaginationInnovationLiteratureWorldview I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'
Artificial IntelligenceCognitionLearningPerceptionSelf-awareness Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it.
CautionFameHumilityPersonal ChoiceSelf-awareness I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
Character DevelopmentCreativityEmpathyNarrative CraftingStorytelling I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
CommunityGaming CultureInclusivityWomen in Gaming 'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.
CreativityHobbiesImaginationSelf-ExpressionYouth I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
ExplorationImaginationInnovationPerceptionQuestioning The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.
CreativityExpressionIdentityImaginationStorytelling Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
Complexity of human natureEmpathy and perspectiveHuman motivationsMorality and EthicsUnderstanding conflict It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.