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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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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I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'
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Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
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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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I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
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If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
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Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.
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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.