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 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 had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why… — 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
