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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. "
Tony Scott
Had
Anything
Never
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" A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. "
Tony Scott
Lot
Homework
Few
" The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake. "
Tony Scott
Drama
Camera
I Can
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Morning
Policy
Always
" Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. "
Tony Scott
Marathon
Ways
Different
" I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently. "
Tony Scott
World
Discipline
My Life
" I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. "
Tony Scott
Movies
Back
Well
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Dangerous
Funny
Me
" Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. "
Tony Scott
Every Day
Family
Talk
" At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. "
Tony Scott
Time
Movie
Lines
" I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. "
Tony Scott
Life
Think
Who
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Same
Never
Go
" I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done. "
Tony Scott
Love
Movie
Done
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Man
Sweet
Time
" Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. "
Tony Scott
Movies
Out
Slammed
" 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
" I have a short attention span. "
Tony Scott
Short
Attention Span
Span
" Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. "
Tony Scott
Gentle
Sweet
Man
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Find
World
Right
" We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. "
Tony Scott
Thing
Want
Back
" 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
Fear
Life
Morning
" 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
" 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. "
Tony Scott
Body
You
Work
" GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. "
Tony Scott
Everything
Organization
Rely
" I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. "
Tony Scott
Make
Because
Something
" I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing. "
Tony Scott
Good
Performance
Wake Up
" All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. "
Tony Scott
Two
Like
Revenge
" New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. "
Tony Scott
Skyscrapers
New
New York
" There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. "
Tony Scott
Desk
True
Romance
" Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. "
Tony Scott
Mum
Family
" The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life. "
Tony Scott
Dangerous
Edge
Life