Ridley Scott quotes

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god. (Ridley Scott)
I honestly wasn't paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary. View quote
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Just stare up at the stars at night, and you'll have those corny thoughts like we all do. How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? How on earth can we be it? It doesn't make sense. ... It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. View quote
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Most novelists are desperate to do what I do. View quote
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How could that have happened? ... Even if it was a hand of God ... I'd read – and I don't know how they know this – but in approximately 3000 BC there was a massive undersea volcano and earthquake, which created a tsunami wave that had to have been a couple of hundred feet high. Just off the heel of Italy. Diagonally across you're staring right up the mouth of the Nile, so I'm wondering if that had anything to do with that. View quote
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I think he writes the truth. Because life is like that most of the time in some shape or form, whether it's illness or the end of the world. Cormac's a writer's writer. You read his writing and think, I can do that, and then you sit down and try. And you try, dude. View quote
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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. View quote
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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. View quote
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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. View quote
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I do a pretty good job at casting actually. View quote
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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. (Ridley Scott)
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 editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. View quote
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MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. View quote
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Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. View quote
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My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. View quote
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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? View quote
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. View quote
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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. View quote
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A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Ridley Scott)
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. View quote
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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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