I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits. Ridley Scott More Quotes by Ridley Scott More Quotes From Ridley Scott And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. Ridley Scott thinking A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. Ridley Scott enjoy ifs You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place. Ridley Scott abbey-road abbey knows I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising. Ridley Scott trying ideas thinking Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters. Ridley Scott potters narnia film If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on. Ridley Scott vernacular celtic audience I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy. Ridley Scott crazy hard-work school Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again. Ridley Scott actors thinking I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it. Ridley Scott definitions 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. Ridley Scott my-family lucky years Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood. Ridley Scott togas robin-hood robins I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot. Ridley Scott dad army school I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. Ridley Scott keys fall thinking Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was a huge advantage because I was able to take my time choosing my film subjects because I wasn't relying on the fear of not being able to work. Ridley Scott able done years You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless. Ridley Scott arrows real home I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact. Ridley Scott nice laughing people You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something . Ridley Scott would-be mean thinking Thank you very much. Comedy? But, anyway, I'm very grateful for that. Ridley Scott us-news Its a very complex story. Its an evolution of what I first did with 'Prometheus' 1, 'Prometheus' 1 was borne out of my frustration that on 'Alien' 1 in 1979 - I only did one as I don't normally do sequels. I was amazed that in the 3 that followed that no-one asked the question. Ridley Scott entertainment Very basic questions. So I came up with the notion of 'Prometheus' 1, which starts to indicate who might have made it and where it came from, so I'm now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we'll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that's finished there'll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979. Ridley Scott entertainment
