Ridley Scott Quotes

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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…
• I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
• I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over…
• I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
• If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
• I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
• 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…
• My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
• I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.
• Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.
• It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't ever blink, honestly.
• 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,…
• Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
• I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.
• Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
• 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.
• 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…

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