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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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" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

Ridley Scott

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" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

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

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

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

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" 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. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

Ridley Scott

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" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "