“You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how i...” — Ridley Scott Quote

“You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'”

“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.”

“When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.”

“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”

“I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.”

“I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.”