Duncan Jones Quotes

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

Balaji has always had great market presence, be it in film or television - everyone was talking about the titles, about what happened on the sets, even the most bizarre and outrageous things are out there to be judged by audiences who inevitably decide to come to the theatres to watch our film.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.