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178 quotes by Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), his best-known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), the drama Thelma & Louise (1991), the epic historical drama Gladiator (2000), which won a Best Picture Oscar, the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the crime thriller Hannibal (2001),...
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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

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Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

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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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Cast is everything.

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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... →

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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a... →

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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... →

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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... →

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What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play... →

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