100 Quotes by Duncan Jones

I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.

Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

You only get one shot to do a first feature.

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

I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.