Top 100 Quotes About Ridley Scott
#1. When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".
Susan Sarandon
#2. Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.
Ron Perlman
#3. When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.
Philippe Falardeau
#4. I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.
Jon Spaihts
#5. Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
Roger Ebert
#6. I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer
#7. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall
#8. All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.
William Monahan
#9. I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
Adrian Lyne
#10. All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.
Joel Edgerton
#11. Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
Benedict Wong
#12. The thing with Ridley [Scott] is he's been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There's absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he's very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to t.
Orlando Bloom
#13. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.
William Monahan
#14. The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.
Christopher Nolan
#15. Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
Joel Edgerton
#16. Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
Richard Preston
#17. I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Orlando Bloom
#18. My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.
William Monahan
#19. As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
Rafe Spall
#20. The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.
John Hurt
#21. There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.
Joel Edgerton
#22. My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.
Russell Crowe
#23. As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
Orlando Bloom
#24. Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.
Mike Colter
#25. I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.
Joe R. Lansdale
#26. I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.
Christopher Nolan
#27. Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.
John Logan
#28. A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
Oscar Isaac
#29. I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.
William Moseley
#30. As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#31. What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Javier Bardem
#32. I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.
Dan Trachtenberg
#33. Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.
Idris Elba
#34. I learned from Ridley [Scott] how to come out of the trailer at a fast walk and make your decisions and keep it going. We were very much on time and under budget, as they say. That was a very important thing for me and very satisfactory.
William Monahan
#35. Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#36. I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
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#37. I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
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#40. When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.
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#41. I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
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#42. In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
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#43. There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.
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#44. My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
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#45. I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.
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#46. Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
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#47. And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
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#48. In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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#49. There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
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#50. Once you crack the script, everything else follows.
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#51. Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom ... without question.
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#56. Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.
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#57. If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.
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#58. I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
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#59. Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.
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#60. A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
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#61. That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
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#62. Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
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#63. The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
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#64. Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
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#65. Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story.
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#66. If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
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#67. Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.
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#68. I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.
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#69. '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.
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#70. I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.
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#71. Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
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#72. The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
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#73. 'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.
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#74. Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.
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#75. Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
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#78. 'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.
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#79. Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.
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#81. Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.
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#82. I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.
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#83. By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'
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#86. The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.
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#87. 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 a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art ... briefly.
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#88. How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?
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#89. The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.
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#91. There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.
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#94. You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.
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#95. You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'
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#96. You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.
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#97. 'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
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#98. 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.
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#99. The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
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#100. 'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.
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