Duncan Jones Quotes

I'm far from casual. I'm a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.'

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

I usually stalk fans because I think they're really funny on Twitter. They don't know it, but I'll just go through their timelines, and if something is happening in the media, I always read fan accounts instead of the news because they have all the info and make the funniest jokes about it, so that's how I get my gossip - by stalking fans.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

I absolutely love my fans, and I get to chat to them a lot on Twitter, and that's why I think Twitter is really great. They call themselves 'The Sprouts' and they are really, really wonderful, so passionate, and they make me smile.

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into 'The Originals' and 'Legacies' and that fandom for the first time, I didn't know how to handle it at first, but I have a better grip on it now.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

I love William Gibson.

My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.

If I was in high school, and we had Twitter, and Harrison Ford was on Twitter, I totally would have tweeted him and asked for him to take my high school photos with me.

With Twitter and Tumblr, it's easy to get lost in the tidal wave of feedback from fans.

I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter.

When you're watching 1D Youtube videos and going to their concerts and tweeting them, there's always a desire for more - and there's nothing like sitting down and spending time with them in the form of fan fiction.

As I've said before, I'm a big fan of social media because it allows players and fans to interactive but it can have its pitfalls.

Celebrities need to be talking to the people who are their greatest fans.

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.

Yeah, so when 'Avatar' came out, the social media world and the idea of fan communities were very new. There were forums and you could obviously go to conventions and talk to people, but it wasn't as clear or easy.

Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''