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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.
Ridley Scott
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Ridley Scott
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
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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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I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
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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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I don't ever blink, honestly.
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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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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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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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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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