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
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I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
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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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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
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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 quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.
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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.
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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 those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.
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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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The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.
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Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
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Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.
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The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.
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I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'
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Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.
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I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'