Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear (then Northumberland) on 30 November 1937. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the UK and Europe before they eventually returned to Teesside. Scott wanted to join Army...See full bio »
I think Russell [Crowe] did brilliantly in
A Good Year. He and I loved that film and Fox loved it and then they didn't know what to do and we got beaten up. Russell got beaten up mercilessly, which I thought was disgraceful because I genuinely thought we had done a good movie about a man in transition which is also quite funny...
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Trivia:
Like his brother Tony Scott, he is an avid smoker of Montecristo Cuban cigars.
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Trademark:
Does not use a lot of wide lenses; tends towards longer focal lengths
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