I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
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I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
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I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.
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We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.
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Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.
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Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
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Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
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I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
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I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.