Ridley Scott quote: "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."

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power....
RIDLEY SCOTT

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.
RIDLEY SCOTT

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and th...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I don't ever blink, honestly.
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I wa...
RIDLEY SCOTT

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comi...
RIDLEY SCOTT

The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'
RIDLEY SCOTT

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic...
RIDLEY SCOTT

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all,...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?
RIDLEY SCOTT

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't ca...
RIDLEY SCOTT

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that fil...
RIDLEY SCOTT

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in...
RIDLEY SCOTT

'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and ce...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain...
RIDLEY SCOTT

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expen...
RIDLEY SCOTT

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell m...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke agai...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographicall...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest m...
RIDLEY SCOTT

There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour i...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to...
RIDLEY SCOTT

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
RIDLEY SCOTT

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of p...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.
RIDLEY SCOTT

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monst...
RIDLEY SCOTT

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
RIDLEY SCOTT

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved...
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

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

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 sc...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a de...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'
RIDLEY SCOTT

Gladiator,
RIDLEY SCOTT

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

It's remarkable that people will give you $10 million to go and get your rocks off.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
RIDLEY SCOTT

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no...
RIDLEY SCOTT

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo...
RIDLEY SCOTT

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
RIDLEY SCOTT

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't don...
RIDLEY SCOTT

If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of t...
RIDLEY SCOTT

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.&#...
RIDLEY SCOTT

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
RIDLEY SCOTT

The best stories come out of the truth.
RIDLEY SCOTT

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

I'm a very practical person.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, &#...
RIDLEY SCOTT

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
RIDLEY SCOTT

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but ...
RIDLEY SCOTT

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual...
JOHN RIDLEY

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do...
JOHN RIDLEY

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY

With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television...
JOHN RIDLEY

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmati...
JOHN RIDLEY

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY

It's funny because the action figures are cool, and then I enjoy the magazines because that'...
DAISY RIDLEY

I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written...
DAISY RIDLEY

I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
DAISY RIDLEY

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I ...
DAISY RIDLEY

I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; ...
DAISY RIDLEY

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
DAISY RIDLEY

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
DAISY RIDLEY

I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to ...
DAISY RIDLEY

I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn,...
DAISY RIDLEY

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
DAISY RIDLEY

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is so...
DAISY RIDLEY

I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was ...
DAISY RIDLEY

I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
DAISY RIDLEY

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
DAISY RIDLEY

So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them ...
DAISY RIDLEY

I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ...
DAISY RIDLEY

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've b...
DAISY RIDLEY

Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at h...
DAISY RIDLEY

When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. Bu...
DAISY RIDLEY

What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get a...
DAISY RIDLEY

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweig...
DAISY RIDLEY

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
DAISY RIDLEY

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to u...
DAISY RIDLEY

Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incred...
DAISY RIDLEY

As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I me...
JOHN RIDLEY

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that&...
JOHN RIDLEY

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo...
JOHN RIDLEY

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t...
MATT RIDLEY

It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen...
MATT RIDLEY

As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would...
MATT RIDLEY

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....
RIDLEY PEARSON

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and ...
JANE RIDLEY

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold se...
JOHN RIDLEY

The thing about 'Star Wars' is that every single person is important. Even though Rey is a b...
DAISY RIDLEY

I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may h...
JOHN RIDLEY

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and les...
JOHN RIDLEY

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Always trust computer games.
RIDLEY PEARSON

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuc...
JOHN RIDLEY

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its th...
JOHN RIDLEY

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in ...
JOHN RIDLEY

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three ...
RIDLEY PEARSON

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beh...
JOHN RIDLEY

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for som...
DAISY RIDLEY

Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the ne...
JOHN RIDLEY

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke...
JOHN RIDLEY

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
JOHN RIDLEY

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we liv...
JOHN RIDLEY

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I ...
JOHN RIDLEY

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fir...
DAISY RIDLEY

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who sai...
JANE RIDLEY

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.
RIDLEY PEARSON

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poste...
JOHN RIDLEY

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. B...
JOHN RIDLEY

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discr...
JOHN RIDLEY

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.
RIDLEY PEARSON

If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kin...
JOHN RIDLEY

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by ...
JOHN RIDLEY

As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' i...
JOHN RIDLEY

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admittin...
JOHN RIDLEY

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitis...
JOHN RIDLEY

Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because...
JOHN RIDLEY

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do ...
JOHN RIDLEY

If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got do...
JANE RIDLEY

I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - ...
JOHN RIDLEY

I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ag...
JOHN RIDLEY

Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Th...
JOHN RIDLEY

The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how god...
JOHN RIDLEY

The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all...
JOHN RIDLEY

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
MATT RIDLEY

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat mys...
MATT RIDLEY

At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks...
JOHN RIDLEY

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances th...
JOHN RIDLEY

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans B...
JOHN RIDLEY

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly...
MATT RIDLEY

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be b...
JOHN RIDLEY

Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy co...
JOHN RIDLEY

So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who ta...
JOHN RIDLEY

My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Smee, you are a supreme idjit."
"Aye, Cap'n.
RIDLEY PEARSON

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, ...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'd...
JOHN RIDLEY

The benefits of volunteering for those in need have been well documented. Julia Roberts claims, 'It'...
CHRIS RIDLEY

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collect...
MATT RIDLEY

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.
MATT RIDLEY

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
MATT RIDLEY

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...
MATT RIDLEY

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by...
RIDLEY PEARSON

For me, that was breathtaking.
STEVAN RIDLEY

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself...
RIDLEY PEARSON

So planning something big."
"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything l...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney...
RIDLEY PEARSON

It's disgraceful. I like a laugh with the lads but I can't understand why there are no lasses to sha...
STUART RIDLEY

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...
MATT RIDLEY

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investig...
JOHN RIDLEY

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.
JOHN RIDLEY

As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abu...
JOHN RIDLEY

'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
JANE RIDLEY

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
JOHN RIDLEY

Our honored elderly would greatly benefit from community volunteers.
CHRIS RIDLEY

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table a...
JOHN RIDLEY

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail...
JOHN RIDLEY

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on hete...
JOHN RIDLEY

Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to lov...
JOHN RIDLEY

She would've made an excellent pirate.
ERICA RIDLEY

Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
ERICA RIDLEY

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be ...
JOHN RIDLEY

It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these inte...
JOHN RIDLEY

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for ...
JOHN RIDLEY

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be fou...
JOHN RIDLEY

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Poli...
JOHN RIDLEY

I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they los...
JOHN RIDLEY

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi...
JANE RIDLEY

did a great job under challenging conditions.
FRED RIDLEY

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.

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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.

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