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 was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.

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.

Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.

Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.

When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.

I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!

I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.

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.

'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.

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

It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.

I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.

I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else.

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.

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.

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.

For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.

Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.

Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.

I was a sensitive boy.

You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.

I was always bit of a jock.