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Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of p...

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The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the ...

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I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all ...

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The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with inter...

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If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolv...

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One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done on...

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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don...

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Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I...

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The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie ...

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When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again an...

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If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is...

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As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attrib...

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On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in...

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There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master -...

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Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, ...

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Fire is our first form of technology.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

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Ridley Scott

Film director

Born: 1937-11-30

Died: N/A

Sir Ridley Scott GBE (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien (1979), his films include Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Hannibal (2001), Matchstick Men (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), Robin Hood (2010), and Prometheus (2012).More