Quotes from Ridley Scott

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

I think sci-fi can easily be PG.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

It's hard writing screenplays.

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 would be writer.

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

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.

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.

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

The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'

I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

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

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

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

Cast is everything.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

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