Quotes from Ridley Scott

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

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.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.