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).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the...

Ridley Scott

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

Ridley Scott

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.

Ridley Scott

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

Ridley Scott

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

Ridley Scott

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

Ridley Scott

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

Ridley Scott

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

Ridley Scott

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

Ridley Scott

'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.

Ridley Scott

The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.

Ridley Scott

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

Ridley Scott

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

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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