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

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

Ridley Scott

Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.

Ridley Scott

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ridley Scott

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

Ridley Scott

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Ridley Scott

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Ridley Scott

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'

Ridley Scott

I am in a constant stage of development.

Ridley Scott

I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

Ridley Scott

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.

Ridley Scott

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

Ridley Scott

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

Ridley Scott

I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'

Ridley Scott

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

Ridley Scott

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

Ridley Scott

I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

Ridley Scott

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

Ridley Scott

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

Ridley Scott

I'm a very practical person.

Ridley Scott

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

Ridley Scott

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