Ridley Scott Quotes

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

I don't ever blink, honestly.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.