Han är såklart en av filmhistoriens absolut främsta, den gamle Ridley. Med filmer som Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down samt Kingdom of Heaven på sin meritlista är han en gigant och trots att han hunnit fylla hela 85 (!) jordsnurr dundrar gubben på med flertalet kommande projekt. I samband med marknadsföringen av kommande Apple TV Plus-rullen Napoleon har Ridley pratat lite om sina forna storprojekt, däribland Blade Runner och om vilken eländig upplevelse han genomgick under produktionen av den kultförklarade filmen.
"The shoot was a very bad experience for me. I had horrendous partners. Financial guys, who were killing me every day. I'd been very successful in the running of a company, and I knew I was making something very, very special. So I would never take no for an answer. But they didn't understand what they had. You shoot it, and you edit it, and you mix it. And by the time you're halfway through, everyone's saying it's too slow. You've got to learn, as a director, you can't listen to anybody. I knew I was making something very, very special. And now it's one of the most important science-fiction films ever made which everybody feeds off. Every bloody film."
Ridley fortsätter sen kommentera huruvida han upplever sin egen scifi-klassiker som "långsam" idag:
"I hadn't seen Blade Runner for 20 years. Really. But I just watched it. And it's not slow. The information coming at you is so original and interesting, talking about biological creations, and mining off-world, which, in those days, they said was silly. I say, 'Go fuck yourself.'"