Ridley Scott Quotes

• Yes, obviously, there’s this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

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• When you’re doing a big movie, you’re gone for 10 months to a year.

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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 should be.

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

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• Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That’s another way: To do the same thing.

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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 editing room. You’ve gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

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• Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

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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 movie that people are going to look at.

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• My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

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• MPC, Moving Picture Company, they’re really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

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  Tags in Moving, Picture

• Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?

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• It’s everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

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• If I have to, I’ll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

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• I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It’s a great movie.

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  Tags in Someone, Over, Thought

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

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  Tags in Second, Finally, Commercial

• 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 thing and he is something very different.

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  Tags in Believe, Character, Different

• I think if I’m going to do a science fiction, I’m going to go down a new path that I want to do.

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  Tags in New, Down, Path

• I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

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  Tags in Knew, Alien

• I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

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  Tags in Working, Used, Writer

• I don’t ever blink, honestly.

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Ridley Scott (30)

Birth:	30th November, 1937
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director, Producer

About

Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien, his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster, Robin Hood, and Prometheus.

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