Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scottis an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien, his best known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, crime drama Thelma & Louise, historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, war film Black Hawk Down, crime thriller Hannibal, biographical film American Gangster, and science fiction films Prometheusand The Martian...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 November 1937
celtic audience has-beens
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.
ocean intelligent thinking
I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.
gears switching policy
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
moving majority brilliant
MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
thinking people trying
I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.
fall mean wine
I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.
aliens
I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
interesting politics conflict
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
cutting thinking perfect
It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.
looks fbi officers
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
film best-of-the-best
It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).
philosophy people degrees
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
science years two
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
home technology people
Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.