Duncan Jones Quotes

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

I don't have a director's mind.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

I like to make films about my heroes.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.