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" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "
Ridley Scott
Kingdom
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Heaven
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" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "
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" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "
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" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "
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" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "
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" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "
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" I love designing, and I still do it. "
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" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "
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" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "
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" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "
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" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "
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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 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "
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" I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. "
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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. "
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History
" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "
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Ever
Like
" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "
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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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" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "
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" On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims. "
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Down
Same
Kingdom
" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "
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" Most people need the money all the time. "
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" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "
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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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" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "
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" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "
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" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "
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" I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "
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Aware
Always
" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "
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" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "
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Yes