English - Director | May 30, 1971 -
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
Duncan Jones
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I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
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It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
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After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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