Duncan Jones

In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.

Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense.

J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else.

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.

I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.

I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.