Ridley Scott Quotes

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

~ Ridley Scott

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

~ Ridley Scott

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. That should be accepted, too.

~ Ridley Scott

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

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

~ Ridley Scott

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

~ Ridley Scott

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

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

~ Ridley Scott

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

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.

~ Ridley Scott

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.

~ Ridley Scott

Fire is our first form of technology.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

~ Ridley Scott

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

~ Ridley Scott