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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Ridley Scott

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Ridley Scott
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
Actor
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Producer
Sir Ridley Scott
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Whole
Writing
Visceral
Screenplays
Intuitive
Movies
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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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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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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.
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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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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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Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.
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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 don't ever blink, honestly.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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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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I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
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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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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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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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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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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 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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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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