273 Quotes by Ridley Scott

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.

There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.