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"I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done."
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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."
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"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."
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"I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done."
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"To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me."
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"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
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"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."
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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."
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"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."
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"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."
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