English - Director | May 30, 1971 -
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
Duncan Jones
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I'm a natural puzzle solver.
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I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
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I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.
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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.
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I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.
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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.
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Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.
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I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.
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Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
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I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.
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In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
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