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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There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.
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I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
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Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.
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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 without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.
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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
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Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
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Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
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Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
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Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
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If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
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I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
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I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.
I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.