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Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.


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RIDLEY SCOTT I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain...
RIDLEY SCOTT If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expen...
RIDLEY SCOTT I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three ...
RIDLEY PEARSON It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beh...
JOHN RIDLEY If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, ...
JOHN RIDLEY The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell m...
RIDLEY SCOTT Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the ne...
JOHN RIDLEY Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke...
JOHN RIDLEY Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
RIDLEY SCOTT If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing wh...
RIDLEY SCOTT Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
JOHN RIDLEY Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we liv...
JOHN RIDLEY As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I ...
JOHN RIDLEY For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the ...
RIDLEY SCOTT Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who sai...
JANE RIDLEY When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
RIDLEY SCOTT Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.
RIDLEY PEARSON When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke agai...
RIDLEY SCOTT Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographicall...
RIDLEY SCOTT I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poste...
JOHN RIDLEY I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest m...
RIDLEY SCOTT There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour i...
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