Quotes by 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 streng...”

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

“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 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.”

“If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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, es...”

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

“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 u...”

“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, fin...”

“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.”

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

“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 yo...”

“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 r...”

“Fire is our first form of technology.”

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

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