Ridley Scott Good Quotations

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

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.

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

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

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

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.