Ridley Scott

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

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.