Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scottis an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien, his best known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, crime drama Thelma & Louise, historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, war film Black Hawk Down, crime thriller Hannibal, biographical film American Gangster, and science fiction films Prometheusand The Martian...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 November 1937
learning
The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.
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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.
screenplay
The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.
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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 great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
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The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.
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'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.
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The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
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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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You can't stand there wringing your hands, you have to deal with how you are going to fix it. Everything has to come from a positive stance.
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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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Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.
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I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.