Ridley Scott quotes

Ridley Scott is a British film director and producer, acclaimed for his visionary work in cinema. Major films such as "Alien," "Blade Runner," and "Gladiator" have had a lasting impact on science fiction and historical epics. He continues to influence modern filmmaking with his innovative storytelling and visual style. Here are 49 of his quotes:

I honestly wasn't paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary.

Ridley Scott

Just stare up at the stars at night, and you'll have those corny thoughts like we all do. How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? How on earth can we be it? It doesn't make sense. ... 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 to be some form of life out there.

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Most novelists are desperate to do what I do.

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How could that have happened? ... Even if it was a hand of God ... I'd read – and I don't know how they know this – but in approximately 3000 BC there was a massive undersea volcano and earthquake, which created a tsunami wave that had to have been a couple of hundred feet high. Just off the heel of Italy. Diagonally across you're staring right up the mouth of the Nile, so I'm wondering if that had anything to do with that.

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I think he writes the truth. Because life is like that most of the time in some shape or form, whether it's illness or the end of the world. Cormac's a writer's writer. You read his writing and think, I can do that, and then you sit down and try. And you try, dude.

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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

Ridley Scott

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

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I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

Ridley Scott

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

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MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

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Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

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My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Ridley Scott

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Ridley Scott

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

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Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

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That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

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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

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

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