Ridley Scott Quotes

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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

Ridley Scott

We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

Ridley Scott

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

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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.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

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

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

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.

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.

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

Ridley Scott

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

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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.

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Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

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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.

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Cast is everything.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

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

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