Ridley Scott Quotes

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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

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MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

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I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

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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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Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

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Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

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

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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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My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

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Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

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I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

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I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.

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There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

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'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

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There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

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Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

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