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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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Executive Producer
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Television Producer
Sir Ridley Scott
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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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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
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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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I think moviemakers are dramatists.
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I don't ever blink, honestly.
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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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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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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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Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
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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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