“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.”
“Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.”
Ridley Scott
“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”
Ridley Scott
“How could that have happened? ... Even if it was a hand of God … I’d read – and I don’t know how they know this – but in approximately 3000 BC there was a massive undersea volcano and earthquake, whic...”
Ridley Scott
“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.”
Ridley Scott
“I honestly wasn't paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary.”
Ridley Scott