“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsDoneJobsFilmProcessAudienceDependsPlentyHopefullyExpanding Author:Duncan Jones
“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.” IfsWantEnoughStoriesBigsFilmPayAudienceSmart Author:Duncan Jones
“I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.” WantChildrenFilmIndependentBudgetsAspirationIndependent FilmIllegitimate Child Author:Duncan Jones
“Everyone wants to know what you want to work on and everyone wants to pitch you what they're working on. And that's just part of the process. And hopefully, at some point you find someone of like minds and you make a film.” KnowsWantMindFilmProcessWhat You WantHopefully Author:Duncan Jones
“I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.” WantWritingLongTogetherFilmUsedNightCoupleLong TimeScriptsTake MeSpecsKurosawa Author:Duncan Jones
“When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsSaidEndsProblemFilmCertainCan DoTalkingMillionsFrontsAmountCostMoonProveStartingBudgetsFeaturesConvinceMore MoneyLots Of MoneyConvincingSaying NoFinancing Author:Duncan Jones
“I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.” ThinkingWantGivingKindReasonOpportunityMillionsSceneDirectCamerasDollarsScriptsWhat You WantBudgetsMore TimeAmbitious Author:Duncan Jones
“I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.” ThinkingWantCharacterFilmDeeperRunnersBladesBerlinThrillersBlade Runner Author:Duncan Jones
“The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.” WantStoriesFansKeysAvailableScreens Author:Duncan Jones
“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.” WantGivingTryingOrderHoursHalfWallGiving UpBurningWorth ItSchedulesLightingReset Author:Duncan Jones
