Ridley Scott on How He Got Into Directing | On Directing 

What's your favourite Ridley Scott film?

I wish I had this man’s drive to work

I can listen to Ridley all day long. He's just awesome

The greatest director of all time And my favorite of all time😎😎😎😎😎😎

(9:47) "If your doing 30, 40 takes you don't know what your doing" -- yeah, David Fincher

Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪. A fantastic close in countering to the mind of so much force of cinematic wonders ❤

Great!

Fincher and Kubrik have left the chat.

Master

Christ Id have so many questions for him!

The only director to credit Giger. This makes him the de facto best director of any Alien franchise movie. Without Giger, the entire franchise would have been absolutely nothing, and he's the only one who understand that. The other lot are too full of themselves to notice.

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(09:48) you cannot generalize your theory doing many takes means you are not knowing what you are doing as a director. David Fincher seems to know what he is doing as well as Stanley Kubrick. Sometimes you are looking for something in the actors‘ particular performance, which you cannot articulate in a good way; you got to find out by various versions. Mr. Fincher repeats the action up to 100 times, doing one take after the other, up to a point the text and action of the scene is totally internalized by the actor; then the actor becomes the character in his view (e.g. THE SOCIAL NETWORK‘ dialog in the bar in the beginning). (Never the less, ALIEN is on my personal TOP 10 list for the island for all times!)

This is why he’s very hit or miss, he doesn’t get actors and does many takes. He relies on screenplay and casting. Unlike say Kubrick who would do millions of takes to get what HE NEEDS! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍