As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001). — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. — Ridley Scott Copy Share
As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
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… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
