Daily Inspiration Quote by Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott’s line has the blunt, slightly amused shrug of a filmmaker who’s spent a career dodging the trap of becoming his own brand. On the surface it’s almost comically circular - “another way” that leads right back to repetition - but that loop is the point. He’s needling a certain kind of creative self-seriousness: the people who insist they’re evolving while quietly reproducing the same comfort-zone choices, the same rhythms, the same signature moves, because the marketplace rewards predictability.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “Some people” is distancing and a little judgmental, as if he’s pointing to an industry habit without naming names. “Like to” makes it sound voluntary, even pleasurable: repetition isn’t always a failure of imagination; it’s a coping strategy. In film, doing “the same thing” can mean sticking to one genre, one visual grammar, one moral worldview. It can also mean repeating a narrative template because audiences, financiers, and algorithms treat familiarity as safety.

Scott’s own context sharpens the subtext. He’s one of the rare directors whose filmography is aggressively non-monogamous: sci-fi, historical epics, road movies, crime, war, philosophical horror. That restlessness reads less like eclecticism for its own sake and more like a working principle: style should serve the project, not the ego. So the quip doubles as self-definition. The real punchline is that sameness can masquerade as discipline, “consistency,” even artistry - but it’s still sameness.