"There's no generic learning process" | Ridley Scott on Directing 

Mr. Scott is apparently 80 years of age. What a sharp mind and energy he has. I hope I'm like that at his age.

It's amazing to hear Ridley Scott saying "if you're doing 30-40, takes you don't know what you're doing" and then hear David Fincher having the total opposite philosophy, wanting the actors to do countless takes and operate on muscle memory. And guess what - they're both great directors and none of them are wrong. :)

His two last sentences. "Authority is important. Even if you're pretending in the beginning, try to pretend properly". Nice!

Ridley Scott is something else. Born in 1937, clear minded, full of plans. I hope so much to see more of his work.

I love that he was so straight about everything - no self-deprecating BS. He's like "I have an eye... My reel from 30 years ago would still hold up today."

This is gold for any person looking into directing. Ridley is the ultimate teacher, he tells it like it is and cuts out the bullshit you don’t need to know. Superb

Just worked on a shoot crew with this man. What an exhilarating ride, fast, furious, focused, and a happy, motivated, focused crew, loving the ride and learning so much. A team leader of note.

You guys have no idea how valuable these interviews are for aspiring filmmakers!! I can't thank you enough!!

Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual directors ever

Wow. One of the most insightful interviews of a director's experience I've ever seen. To hear it from Ridley Scott made it doubly enjoyable. Thanks for this video.

"stamina is very important" so true, after knowing many directors working tirelessly on set without much sleep, such a wise old man.

Not sure how a massive talent like Ridley Scot could ever be underrated as a director but I feel he is. The man is a master.

It’s quite interesting to note that in filmmaking, the director can actually be anybody and have any sort of a process but if he’s truly madly deeply in love with what he’s doing he’ll swim through the dark oceans of filmmaking challenges. David Fincher deliberately shoots several takes and Ridley Scott calls that naive.. yet both are legends in their own right !!

With his sharpness in this interview I hope he can keep directing for another 10 years

Please do more videos on directing!

One of the greatest director of all time

"Guess we should've taken better care of ourselves." Dude's like 82, looks like he's 60 and talks like he's 30. ... I think he's done OK for himself.

I love his sense of humor. He's so fun.

What a generous filmmaker. He gave the world so much

Grandissimo Ridley!!! One of the very best film directors.

Basically every minute of this is invaluable knowledge from one of the best directors in modern history.

TOO visual? How can a movie be too visual? Critics are like politicians. Completely worthless and the world would be better off without them. Ridley is my favorite director... because he's so damn visual.

Ridley Scott ... amongst my great loves of my life in terms of career role models! Thank you for giving him proper time to express himself rather than a rushed Q+A. 💕

16:09 thats some hot thick motivation right there

A directing course in 17 minutes by one of the greats.

I wish him all the Best, may he live two hundrend years

"if you're doing 30-40, takes you don't know what you're doing", i guess Kubrick never got the memo

Seeing Alien, Bladerunner & Gladiator, it is easy to see that Ridley has a background in art ... these particular films are beautiful.

Ridley Scott....thank you. This interview had more juice than any I've heard from in a long time. Thank You.

Such an inspiring talk. He really is one of the best.

communication - and how you communicate your ideas to the rest of team is the real challenge of film-making and the overall art of motion picture. am glad that Sir Ridley Scott tells us the wisdom in all of that first hand.

This was so great. Living legend.

I could honestly listen to this guy all day

True story: I used to produce VFX for music videos, and commercials... even worked with RSA (Ridley’s company) and their directors called “Radical Friend”. Stopped doing it back in 2012. Got burned out. Lately, I’ve been praying (I’m a Christian) about getting back into it. Asking God for a confirmation. For a sign. This was a childhood dream-to direct, and I was almost there. I started watching this video for inspiration and as Ridley was talking about storyboarding, my mom “just so happened” to be going through storage and texted me a picture of something she found in my box from high school. The picture was of an old storyboard template that I made for my short films I used to shoot: Three rectangles, a spot to write “page__of__” and my ‘company logo’ (courtesy of Microsoft ‘Paint’). The text/photo literally came in when Ridley was speaking about storyboarding. Perfect timing from God above.

I am a fan of Ridley Scott because he is one of my favorite directors I like to work with.

He’s honest, direct and talks no BS. You can tell he is a master director. He gets what he wants because he has a vision, plans it and executes it. He describes clearly and bluntly what it takes to make it, what not to do, how to behave to get the proper result. He doesn’t fuss around.

Wow!!! Blew me a away with how real and down to earth he is.

Alien and Black Hawk Down. Def my faves from this beautiful and creative man ❤️

I love this man talking about shooting film

16:08 great motivation right here.

One of my favorite directors.

I love his take on natural light, he must have loved "The Revenant" Not one light used, all nature light apart from one (1) scene with the campfire.

It's amazing to hear people who are on top of their game.

love this chap

Great interview to a very talented director.

Every film director has immense sharpness and energy at a really old age. There has to be a correlation there.

"If you're doing 30 or 40 takes you don't know what you're doing". I'd love sooo much to see Stanley Kubrick's perspective on that if he were still alive lol. Make no mistake here, my top-3 favourite films of all time were Scott's first three films. Masterpieces, all of them.

God bless him, absolutely agree as to the number of takes and so much more. :)

Ridley Scott: "If you do 30,40,50 takes you don't know what you're doing." David Fincher: "........"

Excellent video, some priceless knowledge!

Gladiator's opening scene still is THE Ridley Scott impression for me. The transition from that peaceful little bird on a branch to the Roman cavalry arriving at the frontline of a battle about to start, that moment Hans Zimmer's score kicks in. Just cinema gold.

An incredible technician and artist

Well done.

Ridley Scott and David Fincher both my fav.

Great stuff. Thanks for this!

from Newcastle to Hollywood. Incredible.

Legend.

No rehearsal time for actors may be the hidden Hollywood secret, because I worked on dozens of low budget films and rarely was there any rehearsal. That practice is hard for the crew because we may see the whole set up only once, so all the lines and continuity gets established super quick. There's no time to take notes about what actually happened.

One of the greats

Ridley Scott is fucking cool. He reminds me of a wise old drunk sat by the fire in a country pub.

really humble guy

Frick this is amazing.

Gee I'm 71 and he looks and sounds better than me. He really paid his dues with all those commercials

I like the engineers face on the upper left

love this guy

He looks like on his 100th birthday he will be still directing another movie.

Great talk by his highness Scott as I am a proud actor

Fully Storyboarded with 4-6 cameras...makes sense...i wonder how long editing takes

Great stuff

It would be great if Riddley Scott made a remastered and enhanced remake of the 1985 film "Legend" like he did in the Alien films and its prequel Prometheus.

EXODUS, MARTIAN, GLADIATOR, ROBINHOOD . Wow. ❤️❤️❤️

AND THE SAD part is, I'm also a Storyboard Director, living in a country with a local industry that has the mentality that Storyboarding is a useless profession. I kid you not. A large majority of my local directors and 1st ADs frown on storyboarding. AND it stick out like a sore thumb in their shitty films.

"And even if you are pretending,try to pretend properly

Finish what you started Scott! Finish the Alien prequels!

Just watch this 17 min video and don't bother with film school!

l just love him.

Right on! BAK

so much difference in his and stanley kubrick filming

wow enlightened

I always wondered how directors got into it. He started doing commercials - that sounds like a great intro I also wonder how much money top directors make - considering that it may take them 2 or 3 years to make a movie. What jobs do they go back to if they fail?

Just finshed watching an installment of Alien film series for the first time, the covenant one that is ....brilliant .

real life, real talent

I can't stop listening. Help!

Hey Ridley Scott, I heard the pterodactyl guy from Metroid was named after you!

"I'm like 200 hundred years old but I have 308 projects going on and...oops...sorry, I just died.

Very interesting and educational. He makes it all sound so commonsense and easy. Which it is of course anything but. Can't wait to see what comes out of the Lady Gaga Gucci film. Potentially explosive.

Masterclass right here.

I seriously want to meet him

Please I want more alien movies!!!!

he looks and sounds great for a man in his eighties! he could pass for late 50s

progressive elaboration has brought me back to this again, at last.

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Why is there not a book of those storyboards?!

doin 30 40 50 takes you dont know what ur doin. I hope FIncher doesnt hear this

What if Ridley Scott directed Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt

I think Ridley Scott should make a movie about the battle of Hiroshima.

ridley has a visual mind. me to.

Please add captions

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