Zitat des Tages von Ridley Scott:
There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.
MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
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.
The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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.
Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.
I unfortunately do suffer for my art.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.
Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
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.'
'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.