Tony Scott Quotes

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

  Tony Scott

  Thinking, People, Lucky

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

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  Done, Affair, Love Affair

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

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  Character, People, Trying

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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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.

  Tony Scott

  Romance, True Romance, Scripts

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• 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.

  Tony Scott

  Real, People, World

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tony Scott

  Funny, Actors, Homework

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• 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.

  Tony Scott

  Character, Differences, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Tony Scott

  Morning, Loss, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Real, People, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Tony Scott

  People, Different, Information

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

  Tony Scott

  Inspire

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

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  Scary, Dangerous, Can Do

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Real, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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

  Tony Scott

  England, Our Family

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

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  Life Changing, Ideas, Discipline

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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• I have a short attention span.

  Tony Scott

  Hair, Attention, Short Attention Spans

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

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  Different, Way, Marathon

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

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  Sick, World, Bigs

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

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  Revenge, Two, Hours

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• Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

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  Real, Wind, Noise

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Long

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• 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.

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  Morning, Shooting, Firsts

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

  Tony Scott

  Real, Character, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The hardest scene for me is always the scene when I'm dealing with performances, when I'm actually looking at the guys and hoping that I'm covering it in the right way and that I'm handling it in the right way.

  Tony Scott

  Guy, Way, Covering

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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