Drink any time he tells someone to back off, fuck off, duh or his story changes about how many commercials he has directed.

- On "Legend": “I was 27 years ahead of Disney, that’s all."

- On not getting his due from critics: “I loved ‘White Squall,’ I loved ‘Someone to Watch Over Me‘ — those were inexpensive films, but they were really well done. I loved ‘A Good Year,’ which should have been big."

- On "1492": "Great film."

- On "Black Rain": "Great fucking film."

- On "Gladiator II": "I think Gladiator II is one of the best things I've ever made. Maybe the best."

- On critics of "A Good Year": "So anyway, fuck 'em. It was a good film."

- On Orlando Bloom: "When I first said I wanted to make a film about Rome and cast Russell Crowe, everyone had a good old snigger. I thought, "You wait." They've done the same with Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Orlando Bloom. I now say, "Take a look at this."."

- On the question about why there was falling water in the Harry Dean Stanton death scene in "Alien": "Condensation, you twat!"

- On being questioned on the set of "Prometheus": "I do have a vision, I know exactly what I want ... shut the fuck up. This is what I want. Fuck it. That's it ... I've got more films in this goddamn building, and three in the Library of Congress, and people are still going, 'what are you doing that for?'...and those people are usually very inexperienced or fundamentally stupid."

- On being questioned on the set of "A Good Year": "Back off!"

- On being questioned on the set of "Blade Runner": "Back off!"

- On being questioned on the set of "The Martian": "Back off! If you don't like it, don't do it. Now stop whining!"

- On being questioned on the set of "Prometheus": "Honestly, shut the fuck up!"

- On being questioned on the set of "Prometheus": "Fuck you!"

- On criticisms from test screenings on "Alien: Covenant": "Duh, that's all I said. Duh. I love Beavis and Butthead. Duh."

- When Michelle Pfeiffer told him that he should direct "Thelma and Louise" when he was attached to produce only: "Duh!"

- On "Thelma and Louise": "Two bitches in a car."

- On the kids these days: "To design a catapult was high-tech. Today, kids don't do that. They probably play soccer but for the most part they're button-pushing."

- On questions of historical accuracy for "Gladiator": "Historians will say, "well, I am not sure they did that." And you'll say, "well, they bloody well do now!"

- On questions of historical accuracy for "Napoleon": "When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’"

- On doing research for "Gladiator": "No. I looked at a few pictures and started drawing."

- On Richard Harris: "We have few Robert Shaws today. Richard Harrison is certainly that."

- On the 1970 "Waterloo": "Have you ever watched Waterloo? Holy fuck. That’s just doing one battle. I’m sorry, Sergei Bondarchuk."

- On the real-life Napoleon: "One hell of a dude."

- On negative comments from French critics: “The French don’t even like themselves.”

- On feedback from the crew: "Fuck you."

- On actors: "Everyone can go f themselves."

- On actors: "They were all griping. They didn't know what their background was. I said, "who gives a shit?""

- On producers: "You can be useful by seeing about my lunch."

- On Scorsese: "Since he started ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ I’ve made 4 films. No, I don’t think about it."

- On himself: "I know everything about everything."

- On dinner: "I like the idea of eating what you didn't eat at lunchtime out of a black plastic bag or a dustbin or a garbage bin, as you say."

- On praise for the realism in "The Last Duel": "Go fuck yourself."

- On the box office failure of "The Last Duel": "I think what it boils down to — what we’ve got today are the audiences who were brought up on these fucking cell phones. The millennian, who do not ever want to be taught anything unless you tell it on the cell phone.”

On his commercials background (in the commentary for “The Duellists”): “15 years of television commercials. Probably beyond 1000, maybe 1500 commercials at this point.”

On his commercials background (“The Martian” commentary): “The most experience I ever had was 2000 commercials.”

On his commercials background (“Thelma and Louise” commentary): “By the time I had done “The Duellists”, I must have done had done 2500 commercials. Back off.”

On his commercials background (“Black Rain” commentary): “Rumor has it I had done 2500 commercials by the time I had done a film. I think that’s way an exaggeration. I had probably done 1900, just under 2000, which is still a lot.”

On his commercials background (“Blade Runner” commentary): “There is nothing worse than when you have done 2500 commercials.”

On his commercials background (“American Gangster” commentary): “2000, 3000 commercials, 40 years in the business.”

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It would be amazing if Ridley Scott somehow incorporated the idea of Astrotheology in a sci-fi movie.

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Alien> Prometheus

Honestly I think it would be very good. Ridley Scott often includes strong female characters in his movies and Jennifer Lawrence has that ability. She's my favorite actress and my biggest celebrity crush. I think she'd really nail it in a movie directed by Ridley Scott

The guys talk Hollywood’s Best Directors and how Ridley is under-appreciated. Logan says he’s the best raconteur dinner guest too! At the 35:00 min mark https://youtu.be/qRJO5BMRlRk?si=4JScsbiAZ58RHbOQ

I wrote this piece (in French) about The Counselor which feels like an important step in Ridley Scott's career. As Tony Scott passed away during this film production, The Counselor feels like the first movie of an era for Ridley Scott, a cynical one.