10 Questions for Ridley Scott

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Umm ... no. I don't mean that unkindly. I have great respect for anybody who's going to invest in what I want to do. And I believe they have the right to discuss and say what they feel.

Getting back to A Good Year, there are a lot of wine jokes in the movie. Do you actually make wine?

No. I've been a good boy and maintained this quite nice, neat little vineyard for the last 15 years and have worked--well, not me, but somebody has improved the quality of the grape to the extent that I've been told now I should start to think about a cave and bottling and actually doing a thing for myself.

Have you tried Francis Ford Coppola's wine?

Yeah.

And?

Rich. It's pretty heavy.

You've made about 2,000 commercials. What is the most fun thing to sell?

I enjoyed doing cigarette commercials because they always just come up with great ideas. I did those for years, and they were great filmic, episodic commercials. The problem is, they were about smoking.