Ridley Scott Quotes (35 Quotes)


    We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.

    You can't stand there wringing your hands, you have to deal with how you are going to fix it. Everything has to come from a positive stance.

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

    And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

    Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.


    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.

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

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

    It's remarkable that people will give you 10 million to go and get your rocks off.

    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.

    Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.


    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.

    I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

    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.

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


    And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

    What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

    It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

    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.

    I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

    Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

    I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

    If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

    When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

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

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

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

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

    You have two people who are on two separate sides where a relationship is impossible, yet they come together.

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

    Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

    When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

    I do a pretty good job at casting actually.


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