Ridley Scott je britský filmový režisér a producent nominovaný na cenu Oscara, Zlatý glóbus, Emmy a ocenený cenou BAFTA.Je známy svojou štýlovou vizualizáciou a posadnutosťou pre detail. Medzi jeho filmy patria Votrelec, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiátor, Čierny jastrab zostrelený, Podvodníci, Kráľovstvo nebeské, Americký gangster a Pavučina lží.
Jeho brat Tony bol tiež filmový režisér.
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“Universe to me is, if you’d like, the final character.”
New York Times interview (2013)
Kontext: Universe to me is, if you’d like, the final character. Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. I think people have lost the ability to do that.
“I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith.”
Esquire interview (2012)
Kontext: I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.
Esquire interview (2012)
Kontext: I do despair. That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion. … Can you think of a good one? A just and kind and tolerant religion? … Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.
“The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level.”
Esquire interview (2012)
Kontext: I do despair. That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion. … Can you think of a good one? A just and kind and tolerant religion? … Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.
On the parting of the Red Sea in the tales of Moses, as quoted in "Exodus: Gods And Kings - How Ridley Scott And Christian Bale Are Rebooting The Biblical Epic" at Yahoo Movies (16 September 2014) https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/exodus-gods-and-kings-set-visit-97667462271.html
Esquire interview (2012)
On the relentlessly brutal tone of the works of screenwriter Cormac McCarthy
New York Times interview (2013)