You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 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
It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again.… — 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'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. — Ridley Scott Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
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… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
