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" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "
Ridley Scott
MTV
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" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "
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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 word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "
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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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" 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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" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "
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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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" 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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" The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. "
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" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "
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" When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. "
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" I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.' "
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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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" I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia. "
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" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "
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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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" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "
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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 U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition. "
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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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" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "
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