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" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "
Ridley Scott
Think
You
Would
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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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" 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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" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "
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" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "
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Horizon
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" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "
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Kingdom
Got
Heaven
" 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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Think
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Heaven
" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "
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Ever
Like
" It's hard writing screenplays. "
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Writing
Screenplays
Hard
" 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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You
Long
Going
" 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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People
Think
Music
" 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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Paper
Try
History
" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "
Ridley Scott
Used
Development
Prime
" I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis. "
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Knee
Too Much
Terrible
" Fire is our first form of technology. "
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Technology
Our
Form
" I don't ever blink, honestly. "
Ridley Scott
Blink
Ever
Honestly
" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "
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Yourself
Important
People
" My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place. "
Ridley Scott
Subjects
Over
Career
" 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. "
Ridley Scott
God
Name
Personal
" I think sci-fi can easily be PG. "
Ridley Scott
Sci-Fi
Easily
I Can
" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "
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Way
Great
Picture
" 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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Pirate
Black
Power
" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "
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Who
Problem
Takes
" 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. "
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Real Estate
Night
Looking
" 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. "
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Thought
Voice
Character
" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "
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Fresh
Always
Something
" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "
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Everything
Film
Time
" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "
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Always
Searching
Science
" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "
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Film
Egypt
Community
" Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult. "
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Difficult
Book
Dude