Ridley Scott Quotes

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• Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

  Ridley Scott

  Teach

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• There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.

  Ridley Scott

  Voice, People, Intuition

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Ridley Scott

  Black And White, Gray Area, Black White

  "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

  Ridley Scott

  Looks, Feels, Galaxy

  "Q+A: Ridley Scott's Star Wars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

  Ridley Scott

  Directors, Cracks, Scripts

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• I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

  Ridley Scott

  World, Want, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Process, Visceral

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

  Ridley Scott

  Art, Important, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

  Ridley Scott

  Superhero, Boring, Ifs

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

  Ridley Scott

  Battle, Film, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Ideas, Blade Runner

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

  Ridley Scott

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.

  Ridley Scott

  Want, Wow, Taste

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

  Ridley Scott

  Ideas, Matter, Aliens

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

  Ridley Scott

  Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

  Ridley Scott

  Intellectual, Different, Masters

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

  Ridley Scott

  Views, Way, Sound

  "The Only Way to See a Film" by Ridley Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Used

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• But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

  Ridley Scott

  Adventure, Smell, Creating

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

  Ridley Scott

  Strong, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

  Ridley Scott

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• I don't ever blink, honestly.

  Ridley Scott

  Honest, Blink, Honestly

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

  Ridley Scott

  Getting Older, Want, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

  Ridley Scott

  People, Way, Another Way

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