Top 99 Quotes by Duncan Jones

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.

I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

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.

I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.

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.

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.

Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.