British - Director | November 30, 1937 -
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.
Ridley Scott
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Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
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Business fascinates me. It's very creative.
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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
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By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'
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I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.
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What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.
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From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
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Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
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I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.
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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 evolves.
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When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.
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