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" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "
Ridley Scott
First
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Started
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" 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. "
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" The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. "
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" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "
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" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "
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" I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers. "
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Own
" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "
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Accept
Yes
" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "
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Never
" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "
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Personal
" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "
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Very
Me
" Fire is our first form of technology. "
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Our
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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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Time
Realize
" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "
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" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "
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Mistake
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" I love designing, and I still do it. "
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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. "
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" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "
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You
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Cast
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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. "
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" 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. "
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