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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

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It's hard writing screenplays.

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When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

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Fire is our first form of technology.

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I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

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I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

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I am in a constant stage of development.

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There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

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When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

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Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

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'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

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Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible.

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On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

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I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

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Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

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I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

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I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

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Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

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As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

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You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

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