Words matter. These are the best Tony Scott Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That’s the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, ‘Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?’
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints – they’re equally satisfying, but in different ways.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we’re very tight.
The world is sick of big IT things that don’t work.
There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance.
I’m a plagiarist – I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we’re from North England.
We don’t ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
If you look at my body of work, there’s always a dark side to my characters. They’ve always got a skeleton in the closet; they’ve always got a subtext.
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
New York is vertical – all skyscrapers.
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
I make a movie because it’s something that inspires me.
Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
I have a short attention span.
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
I’m always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I’ve done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.
The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It’s the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.
I think we’re lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we’re doing.
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
