Ridley Scott Quotes

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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.

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The best stories come out of the truth.

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When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

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I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

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Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

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I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

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Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

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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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Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

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Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

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What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

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I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

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If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

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The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

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Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.

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One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

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If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.

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I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

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