273 Quotes by Ridley Scott



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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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    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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    I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

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    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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    If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

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    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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    If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

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