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" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "
Ridley Scott
Experience
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" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "
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" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "
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" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "
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" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "
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