Ridley Scott

“People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie, but for me that's the story.”

“Science fiction is a great way to talk about the big questions of life.”

“What I do is I try to be as clever as I can be, and you hope that people get it.”

“My life is films. I'm not a big social person.”

“The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.”

“I don't think I'm easy to talk to. I'm a shy person.”

“The biggest single problem of American cinema is the lack of good writing.”

“I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but it's a team that works for one person.”

“I'm a designer. I've always been a designer. I can't not be.”

“Once you've got a big theme, you can't be subtle.”

“I'm very visual. I'm a visual storyteller.”

“I'm always looking for a new challenge. I'm always looking to do something that's different.”

“The hardest thing is to get it down on paper.”

“I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you can plan and design things.”

“Everything I do is intuitive. I don't have a big master plan.”

“If you're going to do something, do it properly.”

“To be a good director you have to be a good editor.”