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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
Moviemaker
Truth
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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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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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Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.
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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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I don't ever blink, honestly.
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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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I spend a lot of my time just developing material or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.
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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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Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.
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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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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 step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.
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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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But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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