Top 178 Quotes by Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

Cast is everything.

Fire is our first form of technology.

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.