Ridley Scott Quotes

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

I love making movies.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

I would love to produce a film.

I like making movies.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.