Quotes from Tony Scott

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.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

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.

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.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

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.

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

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.

Because it's not how much money you make that matters, it's how much money you keep.

Never be shy to invest in yourself and in your own personal development, as this is your most valuable asset.

Energy is contagious. If you carry, negative energy around, you will attract negativity. Similarly, if you have positive energy, you attract positive energy including positive people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

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