273 Quotes by Ridley Scott

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What’s frustrating is that we’re short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

I’m just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

There’s a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it – but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God’s sake, I’m not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I’m making a movie that people are going to look at.

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.

Nowadays, everything’s evolved into superheroes and it’s boring. If I see one more superhero movie I’m going to shoot myself.

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

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.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they’re really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.