Tony Scott Quotes

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

I have a short attention span.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

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.

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.