British - Director | November 30, 1937 -
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.
Ridley Scott
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I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.
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History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
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You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'
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The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
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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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When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.
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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
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Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
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