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
black-and-white gray-area black-white
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
intellectual different masters
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
trying
I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.
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.
taken editing shooting
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
enjoy ifs
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
definitions
I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.
disappointment names evil
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion. Religions are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.
thirds findings
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
writing two would-be
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.
voice people intuition
There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.
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.