Ridley Scott Is Not Looking Back

Scott suggests that theater-trained actors’ skill complements his own. “I think the best thing is, they keep me honest,” he says. “My gift is the visual. And I’ve learned to certainly get good with story—clearly, look at all the films I’ve done. They’ve all had good yarns. A film’s a yarn. That’s it. High-class, middle-class, or low-class, it’s a fucking yarn! And that’s our job. We’re storytellers. And so theater actors, in a way, they have a bedrock to lean on if…