Ridley Scott

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must…

— Ridley Scott

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

— Ridley Scott

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music,…

— Ridley Scott

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

— Ridley Scott

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

— Ridley Scott

Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

— Ridley Scott

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom...…

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In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

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If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the…

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The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that…

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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…

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'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around.…

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Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach…

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In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard…

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Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was…

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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing…

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Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa,…

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Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against…

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You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their…

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Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.

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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to…

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By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It…

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I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest…

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

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I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I…

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On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

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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

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a…

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I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition;…

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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

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Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

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They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

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A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years…

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I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.

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

— Ridley Scott

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

— Ridley Scott

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

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Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process…

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The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all,…

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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