Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scottis an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien, his best known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, crime drama Thelma & Louise, historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, war film Black Hawk Down, crime thriller Hannibal, biographical film American Gangster, and science fiction films Prometheusand The Martian...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 November 1937
When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.
When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.
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What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.
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The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'
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When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.
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As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
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There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
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If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.
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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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Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.