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" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "
Ridley Scott
Flying
You
Nothing
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" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "
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" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "
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" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "
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" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "
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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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" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "
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" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "
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" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "
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" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "
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" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "
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" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "
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" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "
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