Archives for September 2007
every ridley scott interview is the same
Posted by Nacho at 10:54 am.
there are many great moments of pretension in the Wired interview with cinematic genius and insufferable pompous ass Ridley Scott.
post a favorite.
Wired: What have you learned about Blade Runner — the story, the characters, the ideas — that you didn’t know when the production began?
Scott:I always knew everything! I knew all the characters. Of course, I got more experience as a filmmaker. But the more experience you get, the less you know — because the more you know, the more you know can go wrong. It can make you insecure. But I don’t worry much about that.
Oh and this little nugget:
“In the years when I was doing a lot of TV commercials, once a month I’d fly into New York. I’d get off the plane at JFK and take a helicopter, which cost $20, to the top of the Pan American building. Winter or summer, high wind or balmy evening — it was hairy. I did that for almost two years. Then, one stormy winter evening, a chopper nearly missed the top of the building because of the wind gusts. It perched perilously on the edge, and they nearly lost it. And that was the end of that. There were no more helicopters; they just closed them down. But I always remembered that.”
Get your facts straight, hombre