Top 225 Quotes & Sayings by Ridley Scott - Page 2

I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

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

I am in a constant stage of development.

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 films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

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

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

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

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

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

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

Most people need the money all the time.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

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

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

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

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.

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

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 music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

It's hard writing screenplays.

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

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.

Cast is everything.

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

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

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.

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.