I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.

The best stories come out of the truth.

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

I am in a constant stage of development.

I'm a very practical person.

We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.

I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.