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" I'm a very practical person. "
Ridley Scott
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" I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "
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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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" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "
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" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "
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" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "
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" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "
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" It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there. "
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" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "
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" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "
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" 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. "
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" I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.' "
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" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "
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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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" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "
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" Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. "
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" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "
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" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "
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" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "
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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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