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Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.


John Ridley

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CHRIS RIDLEY I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
RIDLEY SCOTT Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns ...
RIDLEY SCOTT Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no...
RIDLEY SCOTT She would've made an excellent pirate.
ERICA RIDLEY Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
ERICA RIDLEY A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo...
RIDLEY SCOTT The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
RIDLEY SCOTT As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't don...
RIDLEY SCOTT If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of t...
RIDLEY SCOTT The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
RIDLEY SCOTT I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.&#...
RIDLEY SCOTT To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi...
JANE RIDLEY Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not...
RIDLEY SCOTT I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
RIDLEY SCOTT did a great job under challenging conditions.
FRED RIDLEY This is a major advance for amateur golf.
FRED RIDLEY This is a major advance for amateur golf. It gives amateurs who do not have access to substantial fa...
FRED RIDLEY Hopefully, some of the seeds we're planting today will pay off and we'll be happier on this issue in...
FRED RIDLEY The best stories come out of the truth.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
RIDLEY SCOTT I'm a very practical person.
RIDLEY SCOTT I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, &#...
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