Quotes by Ridley Scott

About Ridley Scott:

Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), his best-known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), the drama Thelma & Louise (1991), the epic historical drama Gladiator (2000), which won a Best Picture Oscar, the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the crime thriller Hannibal (2001), the black comedy Matchstick Men (2003), the epic historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the biographical crime film American Gangster (2007), the epic adventure film Robin Hood (2010), and the science fiction film Prometheus (2012).
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When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It...

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.

Ridley Scott

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

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If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.

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Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

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History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

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I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

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I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.

Ridley Scott

The best stories come out of the truth.

Ridley Scott

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.

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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.

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I don't ever blink, honestly.

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

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

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Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRidley Scott
  • DescriptionEnglish film director and film producer
  • BornNovember 30, 1937
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Film Director; Actor
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of Ouissam Alaouite