Film Quotes by Ridley Scott

I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

— Ridley Scott

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

— Ridley Scott

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

— 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 try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

— Ridley Scott

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

— Ridley Scott

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

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

— Ridley Scott

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— 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

If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic…

— Ridley Scott

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe…

— Ridley Scott

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it…

— Ridley Scott

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

— Ridley Scott

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read…

— Ridley Scott

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

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's…

— Ridley Scott

Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was…

— Ridley Scott

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in…

— Ridley Scott

There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of…

— Ridley Scott

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

I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little…

— Ridley Scott

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

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

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

— Ridley Scott

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

— Ridley Scott

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

— Ridley Scott

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

— Ridley Scott

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

— Ridley Scott

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

— Ridley Scott

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African…

— Ridley Scott

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