When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. — 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
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
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic.… — 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
If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only… — 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
The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped… — 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
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You… — 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… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's… — 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
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
You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do… — 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 think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I… — 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
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… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we… — 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… — 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,… — 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
