As soon as you’re at the higher levels of budgeting, you’ve got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. Ridley Scott Read Quote
Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. Ridley Scott Read Quote
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I’m making a movie a year. It’s insane, but it’s only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art… briefly. Ridley Scott Read Quote
If ‘formulaic’ is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding – then isn’t that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren’t likely to succeed and then don’t succeed. Ridley Scott Read Quote
I didn’t want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. Ridley Scott Read Quote
Sometimes I find I’m wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor. Ridley Scott Read Quote
The great attraction to ‘American Gangster’ is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. Ridley Scott Read Quote
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that’s where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. Ridley Scott Read Quote
