273 Quotes by Ridley Scott

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

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.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

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

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.