I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?


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Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a de...
RIDLEY SCOTT
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big...
RIDLEY PEARSON
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a...
RIDLEY SCOTT
Smee, you are a supreme idjit."
"Aye, Cap'n.
RIDLEY PEARSON
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, ...
RIDLEY PEARSON
The benefits of volunteering for those in need have been well documented. Julia Roberts claims, 'It'...
CHRIS RIDLEY
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collect...
MATT RIDLEY
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.'
RIDLEY SCOTT
A four-letter alphabet called DNA.
MATT RIDLEY
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
MATT RIDLEY
In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...
MATT RIDLEY
Gladiator,
RIDLEY SCOTT
Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by...
RIDLEY PEARSON
For me, that was breathtaking.
STEVAN RIDLEY
One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself...
RIDLEY PEARSON
So planning something big."
"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything l...
RIDLEY PEARSON
Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney...
RIDLEY PEARSON
It's disgraceful. I like a laugh with the lads but I can't understand why there are no lasses to sha...
STUART RIDLEY
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...
MATT RIDLEY
By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
It's remarkable that people will give you $10 million to go and get your rocks off.
RIDLEY SCOTT
'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
JANE RIDLEY
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Our honored elderly would greatly benefit from community volunteers.
CHRIS RIDLEY
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no...
RIDLEY SCOTT
She would've made an excellent pirate.
ERICA RIDLEY
Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
ERICA RIDLEY
A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo...
RIDLEY SCOTT
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
RIDLEY SCOTT
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
RIDLEY SCOTT
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't don...
RIDLEY SCOTT
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of t...
RIDLEY SCOTT
The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
RIDLEY SCOTT
I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.&#...
RIDLEY SCOTT
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi...
JANE RIDLEY
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
RIDLEY SCOTT
did a great job under challenging conditions.
FRED RIDLEY
This is a major advance for amateur golf.
FRED RIDLEY
This is a major advance for amateur golf. It gives amateurs who do not have access to substantial fa...
FRED RIDLEY
Hopefully, some of the seeds we're planting today will pay off and we'll be happier on this issue in...
FRED RIDLEY
The best stories come out of the truth.
RIDLEY SCOTT
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
RIDLEY SCOTT
I'm a very practical person.
RIDLEY SCOTT
I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, &#...
RIDLEY SCOTT