Quotes from Tony Scott

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.

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.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

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

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

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

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.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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