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" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "
Ridley Scott
Film
Right
Editor
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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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" For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. "
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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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" A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly. "
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" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "
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" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "
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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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" The best stories come out of the truth. "
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" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "
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" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "
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" I am in a constant stage of development. "
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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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" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "
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" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "
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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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" Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. "
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" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "
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" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "
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Smarter
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" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "
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" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "
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" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "
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" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "
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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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" I'm a very practical person. "
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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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