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Cinema Quotes by Ridley Scott

37 Cinema quotes by Ridley Scott

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Ridley Scott notes that commerce often drives Hollywood more than pure art. He says he’ll make a film with a political view only if he agrees with it, and he prefers the word “film” to “movie” because it feels less elitist. He also worries about whether anyone will show up when a new movie opens.

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I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

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I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

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As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

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'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

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People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

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The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

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It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

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Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

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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 think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

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I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

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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…

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I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

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I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

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In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

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I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

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I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've…

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The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

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If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic…

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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…

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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…

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Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of…

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Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in…

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I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be…

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I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce…

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I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little…

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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…

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I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

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Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

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You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

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I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest…

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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…

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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…

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As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to…

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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…

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I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think…

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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.…

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The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

It's hard writing screenplays.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the…

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting…

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own…

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few…

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what…

There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you…

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but…

Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.

That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how…

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to…

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.