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" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

Ridley Scott

Paper

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" 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. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. "

" 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. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

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" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

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" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

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

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

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

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" Cast is everything. "

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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. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

" Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. "

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

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

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. "