A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
Because I always take great care in the casting of my movies and you develop good characters with good casting.
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
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.
Cast is everything.
Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.
Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.
Don't forget that by the time I'd made The Duellists I'd done 2,000 commercials.
Fundamentally I'm a practitioner, I'm quite practical minded, both on a creative level and on a business level.
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
I don't ever blink, honestly.
I figured any person that Steven (Spielberg) and George (Lucas) both put in leading roles is going to be a big star.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
I never have problems getting cuts.
I started work three times on three big movies in Morocco in the last five years.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
It's remarkable that people will give you $10 million to go and get your rocks off.
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
No one likes to go away for a year.
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
So when you are charging at the fence and you know you are going to jump it, there is a different level of exhilaration.
Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
Then I made Alien - again in the U.K. - which was very successful, but now I was arriving in Hollywood for the first time.
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
You can't stand there wringing your hands, you have to deal with how you are going to fix it. Everything has to come from a positive stance.
He directed more than 2,000 advertisement clips.
In his first short movie Boy and Bicycle (1965) he filmed his brother Tony Scott, who is also a director.
He has three children: Luke Scott, Jake Scott, Jordan Scott and they are directors too.
According to box office (April 2005), in Hollywood he is the most successful British director.
Black Hawk Down (2001) is dedicated to his mother, who died in 2001.
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