Ridley Scott Quotes

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

I want to do commercial films as well as off-beat movies.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.