Ridley Scott Quotes
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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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But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
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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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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
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And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
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And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
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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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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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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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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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Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
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I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.