Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scottis an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien, his best known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, crime drama Thelma & Louise, historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, war film Black Hawk Down, crime thriller Hannibal, biographical film American Gangster, and science fiction films Prometheusand The Martian...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 November 1937
Ridley Scott quotes about
celtic audience has-beens
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.
superhero boring ifs
Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.
thirds findings
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
thirty amazed
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
abbey-road abbey knows
You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.
getting-older want film
As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.
blade-runner blades yeah
Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.
gears switching policy
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
nice people laughing
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.
potters narnia film
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.
robins togas robin-hood
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.
six australian ballroom
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.
eventually
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.
absolute attraction characters great paradoxes
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.