Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.