273 Quotes by Ridley Scott

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.

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

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

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

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

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of 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.

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

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