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" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "
Ridley Scott
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" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "
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" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "
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" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "
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" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "
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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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" I am in a constant stage of development. "
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" Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. "
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" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "
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Always
Something
" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "
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Insignificant
" 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. "
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Traveled
Childhood
" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "
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Best
Universes
" 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. "
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" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "
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" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "
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" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think. "
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" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "
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" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "
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