--- title: "10 Would Quotes By Ridley Scott" description: "10 Would quotes by Ridley Scott. Plus more from Ridley Scott and more Would sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/ridley-scott-1610_education_unfortunately-we-don-t-seem-to-learn-fro_2699273.jpg" --- > [Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/unfortunately-we-don-t-seem-to-learn-from-history-do-we-and-you-d/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/ridley-scott-1610_education_unfortunately-we-don-t-seem-to-learn-fro_2699273.jpg) > [I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-would-like-to-have-a-bit-of-a-break-and-do-a-comedy/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/ridley-scott-1610_bit_i-would-like-to-have-a-bit-of-a-break-an_814718.jpg) > [I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-would-make-a-film-with-a-political-point-of-view-if-i-agreed-with/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71a/ridley-scott-1610_agreed_i-would-make-a-film-with-a-political-poi_423327.jpg) > [Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/once-i-got-slaughtered-after-blade-runner-by-pauline-kael-three-pages/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebc/ridley-scott-1610_after_once-i-got-slaughtered-after-blade-runne_818169.jpg) > [On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/on-rare-occasions-dad-used-to-reminisce-about-when-he-met-eisenhower/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/136/ridley-scott-1610_about_on-rare-occasions-dad-used-to-reminisce_2420002.jpg) > [The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/the-gulf-of-mexico-they-believe-is-a-huge-asteroid-that-was-an-impact/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50e/ridley-scott-1610_actually_the-gulf-of-mexico-they-believe-is-a-hug_1336561.jpg) > [Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/actors-are-all-different-they-re-not-all-volatile-some-are-sweet-some/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/ridley-scott-1610_actor_actors-are-all-different-they-re-not-all_2245590.jpg) > [The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/the-time-it-would-take-me-to-write-a-screenplay-it-would-take-me-the/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/ridley-scott-1610_better_the-time-it-would-take-me-to-write-a-scr_680682.jpg) > [I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-didn-t-want-to-go-down-the-route-of-spending-a-year-of-my-life/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/ridley-scott-1610_behind_i-didn-t-want-to-go-down-the-route-of-sp_1909909.jpg) > [Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/because-i-was-a-kid-from-north-of-england-the-only-films-i-had-access/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/ridley-scott-1610_access_because-i-was-a-kid-from-north-of-englan_1340515.jpg) ## Other authors on Would ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/would/ridley-scott/#itemlist", "name": "10 Would Quotes By Ridley Scott", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? 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