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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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Ridley Scott
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
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I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
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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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Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
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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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And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
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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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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
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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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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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I don't ever blink, honestly.
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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's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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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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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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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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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 believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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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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