Ridley Scott Quotes

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

Fire is our first form of technology.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.