Tony Scott Quotes

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• There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
• The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life,
• 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…
• I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,
• A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
• I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
• I have a short attention span.
• 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.
• Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
• The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
• Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
• 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…
• I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.
• I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
• Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
• 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,…
• We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.
• Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same…
• What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

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