English - Director | May 30, 1971 -
Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense.
Duncan Jones
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
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I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.
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I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.
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I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.
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I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.
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My family is very international.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
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