I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it. Duncan Jones Read Quote
My job is really to… everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of – to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working. Duncan Jones Read Quote
I think everything you do, whether it’s low budget things when you’re first starting out or full feature films or when you’re working with Hollywood, you’re always learning, all the time. Duncan Jones Read Quote
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. Duncan Jones Read Quote
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. Duncan Jones Read Quote
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. Duncan Jones Read Quote
When you’re in college, everything seems much more important than it really is. Duncan Jones Read Quote
There’s a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can’t get with CGI. It’s about the detail that you just wouldn’t think to put in. Duncan Jones Read Quote
I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile. Duncan Jones Read Quote
