Ridley Scott Quotes

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.

Ridley Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1937

Topics

TimeMeBetterMoviesWriteTwo

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

Jim Ratcliffe

SeeingBeingWellSubstitute

I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.

John Grogan

WoodsTreesToolsHarvestHandOut

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Andrzej Wajda

PastLanguageLiteratureKnowWant

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Andy Rooney

GoodHurtSexyTelevisionSkating

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

Jason Statham

GreatMoneyFunPeopleStoryYou

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

Chris Frantz

GoodHomeYouPlaceKindBand

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

Chief Seattle

MorningDayTogetherManRedSun

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.

Cornelia Parker

PaintingDoingKnowDoneSculpture

The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

Bonnie Tyler

SuccessBestParentsHouseBuyAble

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

April Winchell

MusicI AmYouBadGoddessHard

I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game.

Tom Bergeron

BestGameFoxConservativeOverSee

With any success, there will always be a little bit of a negative.

Nuno Bettencourt

SuccessNegativeWillAlwaysLittle

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