http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/03/06/hovis-hollywood-ridley-scott-britains-ad-men-reinvented-blockbuster/
“We were considered to be somewhat bubble gum because we’d come from a commercial world and I was sensitive to that,” he says. “Ridley got clobbered too because his work was thought to be so dreadfully slick visually by critics of the time. What they didn’t realise was that what they were looking at was the greatest cinematic visual stylist of his age. I was affected by the criticsim and therefore I didn’t want to do commercials. Ridley had no such worries. He used to say “Oh, f___ them. Ask ’em how much money they make!”
