Ridley Scott Quotes

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

Ridley Scott

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• It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Done
  • Movie

• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Will

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Life
  • Come

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Help

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Nature
  • Gods
  • Expressive

• It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Good
  • Always
  • A Good Thing

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• I don't envy young actors.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Young
  • Envy
  • Young Actors

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Nice
  • Jokes

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Business
  • War

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Color
  • Battle
  • Monster

• The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Face
  • Obstacles
  • Stand

• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Jazz

• So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mean

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

  

  Ridley Scott
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Decisions