Ridley Scott Quote

I think he writes the truth. Because life is like that most of the time in some shape or form, whether it's illness or the end of the world. Cormac's a writer's writer. You read his writing and think, I can do that, and then you sit down and try. And you try, dude.

On the relentlessly brutal tone of the works of screenwriter Cormac McCarthy - New York Times interview (2013)