Ridley Scott quotes - page 2

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. (Ridley Scott)
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. View quote
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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. View quote
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Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. View quote
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And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. View quote
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Universe to me is, if you'd like, the final character. View quote
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I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. View quote
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The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. View quote
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. (Ridley Scott)
How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? View quote
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Cast is everything. View quote
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I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. View quote
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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. View quote
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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 great sound and pristine picture. View quote
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Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. View quote
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I don't ever blink, honestly. View quote
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Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. View quote
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I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. View quote
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It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. (Ridley Scott)
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer. View quote
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I do despair. 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 we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion. ... Can you think of a good one? A just and kind and tolerant religion? ... 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. View quote
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Universe to me is, if you'd like, the final character. Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. I think people have lost the ability to do that. View quote
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