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" 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. "

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" The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. "

Ridley Scott

Why

Fly

People

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

Ridley Scott

Good

Sell

" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

" Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

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

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

Ridley Scott

I Am

Constant

" When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually. "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. "

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

" I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" 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 was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

Ridley Scott

Degree

Yes

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" 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 would be writer. "

" Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. "

Ridley Scott

Door

Science

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "