Ridley Scott Quotes

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Originality is really important.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'