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" The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. "

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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. "

Ridley Scott

Technology

Picture

Quality

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

Ridley Scott

Degree

Yes

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

" I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "

" 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. "

" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

Ridley Scott

I Am

Constant

" 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. "

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "

" 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. "

" 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. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

Ridley Scott

Good

Sell

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ridley Scott

Space

Story

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

" There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming. "