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Duncan Jones Biography

Duncan Zowie Jones (/ˈzoʊi/; born 30 May 1971) is an English director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the science fiction film Moon (2009), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Source Code (2011), and Warcraft (2016).

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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with Warcraft in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

Games, Hero, Heroes, Player, Twist, Unique

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

Bad, Creatures, Cute, Guy, Humans, Ugly

I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.

123, Film, Know, Moon, Obviously, Promotion

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

Character, Characters, Look, Looks, Movies, Seems

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

Away, Ideas, Love Is, People, Relate, Thinking

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

Career, Careers, Catches, Kind, Life

You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing.

Back, Dollars, Investing, Make, People, Spending

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm

Fantastic, Rhythm, Rockwell, Sense

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.

Atmosphere, Giving, People, Supposed, Usually

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

Keep, Smart, Stories, Want

As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight years, and I'm still working. Feature films was not the end goal. Feature films was one of the stages. Getting to the point of the Coen brothers or Tarantino, where you're writing your own material and have the budget to do it properly, that's the end goal, and I'm close to that.

Brother, School, Stages, Thinking, Took, Writing

I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

Fun, Growing Up, Real, Simple, Tolkien

And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with. It was a perfect match [with Sam Rockwell]; I am so thrilled I got to work with him. He is a really nice and incredible guy.

Comfortable, Guy, Nice, Perfect, Sam, Time

Every time you want to reset your set and pull walls out and reset the lighting, you're burning up half an hour to an hour, and when you're trying to keep to a schedule, you're constantly having to reassess what's worth it and what you're going to have to give up in order to keep on schedule.

Giving Up, Having, Order, Reset, Set, Wall

The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.

Felt, Fiction, Growing Up, Old, People, Tried

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

Careers, Long, Chance, Career, Terms, Worked

You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.

Benefits, Knowing, Look, People, Thinking, Time

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

Battle, Change, Exploding, Fiction, Real, Science

When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.

Dad, Incredibly, Kids, Know, Orange, Used

When we first made this whole idea this was going to be calling card film [Moon] and it was going to give the opportunity to make my first feature film. But it turned out a lot better, we just couldn't stop ourselves from going into it, and we are very proud that it turned into something that people wanted to see.

Ideas, Moon, Opportunity, People, Stop

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