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
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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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'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.
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The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
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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 that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.
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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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There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
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When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
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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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People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.
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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 didn't quite work for me.
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Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story.
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From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.