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Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

Ridley Scott

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Ridley Scott
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: November 30
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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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In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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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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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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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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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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Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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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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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 believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
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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 don't ever blink, honestly.
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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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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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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
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Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.
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