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" Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. "
Tony Scott
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" 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 thing. "
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" What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters. "
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" I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. "
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" Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. "
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" New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. "
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" The world is sick of big IT things that don't work. "
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" 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. "
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Done
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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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" We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. "
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Thing
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" We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. "
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Class
Background
" All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. "
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Two
Like
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" Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. "
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Family
" There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. "
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Desk
True
Romance
" 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
Thought
People
Language
" 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. "
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Fear
Life
Morning
" Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. "
Tony Scott
Every Day
Family
Talk
" I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. "
Tony Scott
Want
Always
Camera
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Art
School
Painting
" A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. "
Tony Scott
Lot
Homework
Few
" I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. "
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Life
Think
Who
" An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?' "
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Director
Doing
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" At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. "
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Movie
Lines
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Process
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" I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. "
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" 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. "
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Body
You
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