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" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

Ridley Scott

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" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

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

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

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

" 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. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. "

" Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult. "

" 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. "

" If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

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

" I love designing, and I still do it. "