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I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

Ridley Scott

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Ridley Scott
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
Actor
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Producer
Sir Ridley Scott
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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, My God, this would be perfect for Tristan, and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.
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Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.
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Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.
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I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.
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Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.
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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
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My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
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The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.
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I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
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In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.
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You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .
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It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.
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I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
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