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 Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we`re from North England. All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
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There`s one great script that hit my desk that I didn`t change at all, and that was True Romance.
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GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
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About Ridley Scott: "Nobody does toga movies like my brother."
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I was always criticized for style and content, but I enjoy trying to tell stories a different way, particularly with this movie, Man On Fire.
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We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
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The world is sick of big IT things that don`t work.
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
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I think we`re lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we`re doing.
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Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
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I thought that subtitles are boring because they`re there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
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I make a movie because it`s something that inspires me.
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We come from a tough, working class background, so we`re very tight.
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We don`t ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.
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I have a short attention span.
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[on Tom Cruise] A magnet for women.
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It was just a different way of doing things, and I`m often criticized for attempting difference, which is misinterpreted as style over content.
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Trivia
Often works with film editor Chris Lebenzon.
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Often casts Denzel Washington.
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Visual trademarks include heavy use of smoke, colored filters, and shafts of light breaking through windows, often through blinds.
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Turned down a chance to direct Beautiful Girls (1996), because he felt he couldn't do justice to Scott Rosenberg's script, which placed characterization and dialogue above dramatic event.
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Dedicated his movie Spy Game (2001) to the memory of his mother, Elizabeth Scott, who died that year.
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Often works with editor Christian Wagner
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Starred in brother Ridley Scott's first filmmaking effort, "Boy and Bicycle", in 1960 at the age of 16, playing the title role. The film is currently owned by the British Film Institute, and video copies are currently available for purchase.
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Uncle of actress Jordan Scott
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Partner, with Ridley Scott, in Scott Free Productions.
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Former brother-in-law of Sandy Watson.
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In the early 1980s, was reported to be a contender to direct the highly regarded screenplay Starman (1984), since British commercial veterans were suddenly in vogue in Hollywood ('Alan Parker', Adrian Lyne, Hugh Hudson, Ridley Scott, etc.) However, the reaction to his debut film, The Hunger (1983), was so negative that his stock in Hollywood sank almost instantly. Starman was ultimately directed by John Carpenter, and Scott's next film was Top Gun (1986), three years later.
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Brother of director Ridley Scott
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Once had a biography of Mexican icon Pancho Villa in production. At the same time, his brother, Ridley Scott, also had a "Pancho Villa" project in development. The story made headlines, and although both brothers are careful to note differences in the two projects, neither project has yet been produced (2001).
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Has directed literally thousands of television commercials, most for his brother Ridley Scott's company RSA (Ridley Scott Associates), between the early 1970s and the early 1980s.
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Was classmates with Stephen Goldblatt and Richard Loncrain in Film School.
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He and his brother Ridley have both worked with the following actors: Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, The Hunger), Tom Skerrit (Alien, Top Gun), Tom Cruise (Legend, Top Gun), Viggo Mortensen (G.I. Jane, Crimson Tide), Brad Pitt (Thelma & Louise, True Romance), Giancarlo Giannini (Hannibal, Man on Fire), Gary Oldman (Hannibal, True Romance), and Denzel Washington (American Gangster, Man on Fire et al).
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Son of Elizabeth Jean Scott.
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His films are known for their rich visual style, with dazzling cinematography and beautiful production designs.
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Is an avid mountain climber.
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Unlike brother Ridley Scott, he utilizes mostly American actors in lead roles. (Only four leads in his features have not been American since The Hunger (1983): Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in The Hunger (1983); Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder (1990)) and Keira Knightley in Domino (2005)).
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Performance (1970) by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is one of his favourite films.
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Graduated from the Royal College Of Art In London, England.
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Once linked romantically to Brigitte Nielsen, whom he directed in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). Both were married at the time, Nielsen to Sylvester Stallone. Scott has since admitted the affair was what led to his divorce from his second wife.
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Uncle of Jake Scott
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