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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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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... →

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If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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