“Universe to me is, if you’d like, the final character.”

— Ridley Scott

New York Times interview (2013)
Context: Universe to me is, if you’d like, the final character. Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. I think people have lost the ability to do that.

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English film director and film producer 1937

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