The auteur recalled a studio executive encouraging him to make features about "normal people" (and not replicants or aliens) instead.

Ridley Scott is known to fascinate audiences with his unique storylines and spelling magic from behind the camera. Every Scott-directed movie has been fictional, or partly based on real-life characters.

But somebody at one of the studios said to me, 'Why don't you do a film about normal people?' I went, 'What the f--- does that mean?' Because no one's normal unless you're totally boring, right?" Scott directed his first film,