Sir Ridley Scott, né le 30 novembre 1937 à South Shields dans le Tyne and Wear, est un réalisateur et producteur britannique.
Scott est reconnu pour son style visuel très concentré et atmosphérique, qui a inspiré un grand nombre de réalisateurs,. Il a été nommé à trois reprises à l'oscar du meilleur réalisateur, ainsi qu'aux Golden Globes et BAFTA Awards. En 2003, il est anobli par la reine Élisabeth II pour services rendus aux arts britanniques, et en 2015, il reçoit un doctorat honorifique par le Royal College of Art de Londres.
Il est le frère aîné du réalisateur Tony Scott avec qui il a fondé la société de production Scott Free Productions en 1995. Un BAFTA Award a récompensé leur contribution remarquable au septième art. Il est le père de trois enfants, tous réalisateurs : Jake, Luke et Jordan .
Il est un réalisateur de films à succès tels que Gladiator, Hannibal, Prometheus ou encore Seul sur Mars. Il s'est particulièrement distingué dans le genre spatial-science-fiction, genre dont il est le réalisateur le plus prolifique, avec Alien, le huitième passager, Blade Runner, Prometheus et Seul sur Mars . Son œuvre unique et pionnière poursuit sa prospection en 2017 avec son film Alien: Covenant.
“Universe to me is, if you’d like, the final character.”
New York Times interview (2013)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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)
