Ridley Scott Quotes

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of the day, so confidence, be it on the filmmaker or the script, is all that counts.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.