Ridley Scott
A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Ocean
I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.Collection: Six
Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was a huge advantage because I was able to take my time choosing my film subjects because I wasn't relying on the fear of not being able to work.Collection: Years
There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. There's all kinds of reasons. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.Collection: Home
I think moviemakers are dramatists.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Abbey Road
I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.Collection: Dad
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.Collection: Nice
Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Celtic
You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .Collection: Mean
I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.Collection: Definitions
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.Collection: Crazy
Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.Collection: Blade Runner
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.Collection: Cutting
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.Collection: Writing
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.Collection: Thirds
I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.Collection: Book
I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Thinking
You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.Collection: Real
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.Collection: Potters
Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.Collection: Robins