Ridley Scott Auteur Profile

• Stunning visuals - He personally sketches most of his own storyboards
• Strong female characters
• Being the actors' director that he is, Scott favors extensive use of the two-camera 'V' set-up, thus enabling his actors to play more fluidly off one another without being constantly interrupted by calls to "Cut!".
• Frequently uses music by Hans Zimmer
• Begins most films with an info card sequence/montage
• Frequently casts Russell Crowe
• Usually incorporates snapshot photography into edited sequences
• Usually casts / works with actors who have a strong theatre background and are graduates of drama school. He likes to be personally involved with the casting of his movies as well
• Is the father of "director's cut"
• Owns the visual effects company Mill Film, based in London. They did the majority of the effects work on Gladiator
• Owns Shepperton Studios in the UK with his brother Tony Scott
• He cast his partner in life, Giannina Facio, in all of his films since Gladiator
• Coming from an army and fine arts background, he is an inveterate stickler for detail...... Sigourney Weaver to complain that he cared more about his props and sets than he did about his cast.