Quotes from Ridley Scott

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.

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

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, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible.

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

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.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

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

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

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

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

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

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 have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.