Top 20 Ridley Scott Alien Quotes
#1. When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.
Ridley Scott
#2. The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
Henri Nouwen
#3. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
#4. I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.
Felix Salten
#5. '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.
Ridley Scott
#6. I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'
Lauren Beukes
#7. 'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
Ridley Scott
#8. 'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
#9. Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
Matt Cameron
#10. Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.
William Esrey
#11. And she'd apologize for being so sensitive and moody lately. His warm hand on her hip brought her into the curve of his body. With his breath on her neck, she fell into a deep sleep, convinced that she was safe.
Lisa Genova
#12. There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.
Ridley Scott
#13. A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#14. 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
#15. For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.
Ridley Scott
#16. What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
Fran Lebowitz
#17. I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
Ridley Scott
#18. One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long.
Mike Gayle
#19. I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
Ridley Scott
#20. We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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