Ridley Scott Quotes

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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

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The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

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The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

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Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

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The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.

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I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

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Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.

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Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

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I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

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If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

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History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

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If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

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I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

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The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

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Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

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I have a healthy competitive nature.

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There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.

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There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

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I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

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As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

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