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" 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.' "

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" 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

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

" When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize. "

" 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. "

" Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem. "

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

" Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. "

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

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner. "

" I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. "

Ridley Scott

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" I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

Ridley Scott

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" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

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

" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" 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. "

" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "

" The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" 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. "

" 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. "