00:00Ridley Scott says today's movies are so lousy that he just re-watches his own instead.
00:07While speaking at BFI South Bank in the UK, the legendary director of Alien, Gladiator,
00:12and Blade Runner said in part,
00:14We're drowning in mediocrity.
00:16The quantity of movies that are made today, literally globally millions.
00:20There's not thousands, there's millions.
00:22And most of it is.
00:23According to Yahoo News UK, he went on to say that only 10% of movies being made today
00:28are pretty good, and only the top 5% are great.
00:31The 87-year-old filmmaker also shared,
00:34So what I do, and it's a horrible thing, but I've started to watch my own movies.
00:38And actually, they're really good.
00:39And also, they don't age.
00:41I watched Black Hawk Down the other night, and I thought, how the hell did I do that?
00:45I was trying to fight.
00:47You joined the fight, Sergeant?
00:48I was trying to make a difference.
00:49So guess what?
00:50You're going out today.
00:51What?
00:52That's what you wanted, isn't it?
00:53Oh, yeah.
00:54However, Scott says he doesn't think all of today's movies are rubbish.
00:57He continued,
00:58So what's his advice for making better movies?
01:07Better scripts.
01:08He said,
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