I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.
The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.
Fire is our first form of technology.
If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.
Most people need the money all the time.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?
I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.
I think sci-fi can easily be PG.
I have a healthy competitive nature.
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.
The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.
The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
I am in a constant stage of development.