I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. — 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 watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. — 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
As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. — 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
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that… — 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
By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It… — 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
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
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
'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
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'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
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of… — 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
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
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
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
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 think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid. — 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 a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. — 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 support the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
