Ridley Scott

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

— Ridley Scott

I'm a very practical person.

— Ridley Scott

I have a healthy competitive nature.

— Ridley Scott

I don't ever blink, honestly.

— Ridley Scott

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

— Ridley Scott

Cast is everything.

— Ridley Scott

Fire is our first form of technology.

— Ridley Scott

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

— Ridley Scott

I am in a constant stage of development.

— Ridley Scott

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

— Ridley Scott

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

— Ridley Scott

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

— 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

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You…

— Ridley Scott

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

— Ridley Scott

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

— 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

Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary…

— 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

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You…

— 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

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the…

— Ridley Scott

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools.…

— Ridley Scott

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels…

— Ridley Scott

I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really…

— 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

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…

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You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt…

— Ridley Scott

It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The…

— 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

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

— Ridley Scott