Tony Scott famous quotes

06-24-2025

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
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 #Covering #Way
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
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.
-- Tony Scott

#Real #Wind #Actors
Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
-- Tony Scott

#Real #People #Research
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
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
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.
-- Tony Scott

#Strong #Cutting #Views
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.
-- Tony Scott

#Real #Drama #Thinking
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.
-- Tony Scott

#England #Our Family
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently,
-- Tony Scott

#Life Changing #Ideas #Giving
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
-- Tony Scott

#Matriarchs #Mum #Patriarch
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
-- Tony Scott

#Inspire
I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.
-- Tony Scott

#Done #Affair #Love Affair
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 #Information #Different
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
-- Tony Scott

#Way #Different #Marathon
The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
-- Tony Scott

#Sick #World #Bigs
Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
-- Tony Scott
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life,
-- Tony Scott

#Scary #Dangerous
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
-- Tony Scott

#Revenge #Two #Hours
I have a short attention span.
-- Tony Scott

#Hair #Attention #Short Attention Spans
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
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
-- Tony Scott

#Funny #Actors #Homework
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
-- Tony Scott

#Organization #Suppliers #Rely

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