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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

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Ridley Scott
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
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Executive Producer
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Television Producer
Sir Ridley Scott
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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
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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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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'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
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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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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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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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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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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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Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.
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Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.
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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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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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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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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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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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