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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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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 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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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
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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 went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.
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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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I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.
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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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I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
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Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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