Ridley Scott Quotes

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Ridley Scott

Profession : Director

Birth : November 30, 1937

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

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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I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

Ridley Scott

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

Ridley Scott

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

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I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

Ridley Scott

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.

Ridley Scott

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

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I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

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Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

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Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

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The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Ridley Scott

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.'

Ridley Scott