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Ridley Scott

"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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Ridley Scott
"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year."

Movies

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Ridley Scott
"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."

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Ridley Scott
"And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head."

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Ridley Scott
"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."

Career

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Ridley Scott
"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development."

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Ridley Scott
"I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different."

Character

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Ridley Scott
"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny."

Fun

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Ridley Scott
"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."

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Ridley Scott
"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."

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Ridley Scott
"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it."

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