273 Quotes by Ridley Scott

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

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.

It's remarkable that people will give you $10 million to go and get your rocks off.

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

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

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

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

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!