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" I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "
Ridley Scott
Wanted
About
Alien
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" 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. "
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You
Room
Hands
" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "
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Galaxy
Feel
Insignificant
" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "
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Comedy
Implies
Slapstick
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
Why
Fly
People
" I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "
Ridley Scott
Film
Black
Did
" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "
Ridley Scott
Science Fiction
Doing
High
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
Time
Better
Write
" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "
Ridley Scott
Turn
Character
Believe
" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "
Ridley Scott
Thought
Voice
Character
" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "
Ridley Scott
Movies
Person
Positive
" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "
Ridley Scott
Always
Way
Some People
" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "
Ridley Scott
Used
Development
Prime
" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "
Ridley Scott
Everything
Film
Time
" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "
Ridley Scott
Interesting
Everybody
Big
" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "
Ridley Scott
Think
Demons
Interesting
" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "
Ridley Scott
Always
Politics
Interesting
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
Sometimes
Film
Long
" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "
Ridley Scott
Two
Different
Markets
" I don't ever blink, honestly. "
Ridley Scott
Blink
Ever
Honestly
" That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. "
Ridley Scott
Part
Gears
Policy
" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "
Ridley Scott
Art
Unfortunately
Suffer
" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "
Ridley Scott
Other
People
Films
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
Time
Horizon
Unique
" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "
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You
Think
Movie
" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "
Ridley Scott
Give
Choose
God
" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "
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Did
Picture
Moving
" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "
Ridley Scott
Think
Down
Science
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
Paint
Traveled
Childhood
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
People
Sick
Sickness
" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "
Ridley Scott
Humor
Brain
Sometimes