Quotes from Ridley Scott

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.

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.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

I don't ever blink, honestly.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

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.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

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

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.