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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

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I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

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Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

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On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

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The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

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I love designing, and I still do it.

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I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

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'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.

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If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.

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I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

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I'm a very practical person.

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I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'

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'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

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I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.

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I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

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Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

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I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.

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The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'

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Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

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You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

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