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" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "

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

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

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

" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

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" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

Ridley Scott

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" I'm a very practical person. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

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" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "

" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" 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. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "

" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "