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> [When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/when-you-re-in-the-editing-room-the-dangerous-thing-is-that-it/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/ridley-scott-1610_again_when-you-re-in-the-editing-room-the-dang_827477.jpg)

> [By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/by-going-to-a-preview-a-director-becomes-insidiously-infected-by-the/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/ridley-scott-1610_becomes_by-going-to-a-preview-a-director-becomes_1588625.jpg)

> [For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/for-prometheus-i-came-back-to-a-very-simple-question-that-haunted-me/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/ridley-scott-1610_alien_for-prometheus-i-came-back-to-a-very-sim_1918622.jpg)

## More by Ridley Scott

> [The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/the-word-comedy-implies-slapstick/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [It's hard writing screenplays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/it-s-hard-writing-screenplays/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-ll-reshoot-a-corridor-13-different-ways-and-you-ll-never-recognise/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [I unfortunately do suffer for my art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-unfortunately-do-suffer-for-my-art/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/as-soon-as-you-re-at-the-higher-levels-of-budgeting-you-ve-got-to-get/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-m-agnostic-because-i-went-through-the-usual-process-of-parents/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/your-landscape-in-a-western-is-one-of-the-most-important-characters/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 the few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/there-s-still-a-lot-of-investors-wondering-what-to-invest-in-and-of/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/when-you-re-at-a-certain-point-in-your-time-age-that-is-when-you-re/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/there-s-a-little-thing-on-your-shoulder-called-intuition-and-it/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-always-shoot-my-movies-with-score-as-certainly-part-of-the-dialogue/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/are-we-the-first-hominids-i-really-really-really-doubt-it/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/that-s-a-heavy-word-but-picking-up-a-newspaper-every-day-how-can-you/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-do-like-to-make-films-with-a-political-theme-but-sometimes-it-s/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

> [Business fascinates me. It's very creative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/business-fascinates-me-it-s-very-creative/)

[Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/)

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