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Tony Scott
British
Director
Born:
Jun 21
,
1944
Died:
Aug 19
,
2012
Always
Every
Life
Me
World
You
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The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
Tony Scott
Work
World
Big
Sick
Things
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
Tony Scott
Revenge
Like
Hours
Movies
Two
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
Tony Scott
Me
Something
Inspires
Make
Because
Movie
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
Tony Scott
Great
Change
Great Script
True
Hit
Romance
Script
Desk
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
Tony Scott
Man
Sweet
Gentle
Very
Dad
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
Tony Scott
Family
Mum
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
Tony Scott
Life
You
Dangerous
Edge
Live
Dangerous Thing
Scary
Directing
Most
Biggest
Your
Thing
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
Life
Faith
Morning
You
Fear
Guilt
Face
My Life
First
Sense
Everybody
Scariest
Through
Puts
Failing
Coming
Loss
Movies
Production
Thing
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
Me
World
Discipline
My Life
Changing
See
Gives
Life-Changing
Like
Ideas
How
Pace
Differently
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
Love
Time
Family
Man
Respect
Sweet
Ran
Steel
She
Gentle
Fist
Very
Same
Same Time
Roost
Dad
Mum
Her
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
Art
School
Same Thing
Later
Never
Along
Understood
Came
Go
Years
Art School
Same
Six
Wanted
Then
Dad
Why
Thing
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
You
Cake
Whatever
Drama
Gives
Excitement
True
Camera
Icing
Actor
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
Tony Scott
Other
Back
Steal
Look
Well
Always
Movies
Reinvent
I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.
Tony Scott
Love
Every
Had
Affair
Love Affair
Done
Movie
Ever
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
Funny
Me
World
Dangerous
Somebody
More
Could
Computer
Exciting
Always
Real
Been
Up
Than
Sitting
Front
The Real World
Anything
Real World
Far
Conjure
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
Tony Scott
Ways
Like
Equally
Making
Commercials
Different
Movie
Marathon
Different Ways
Satisfying
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
World
Research
Complex
Characters
Find
Pretty
Simplistic
Always
Real
Stories
The Real World
Real World
Script
Right
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
Morning
Me
Wake Up
Every
Worries
Bad
Wreck
Good Thing
Bad Thing
Performance
Between
Major
Most
Because
Doing
Wake
Up
Train
Commercial
Commercials
Shoot
Shooting
Upright
Where
Movie
In-Between
Whether
Movies
Bolt
Thing
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.
Tony Scott
Love
Good
Great
Experience
Every
Great Experience
Out
Some
Always
Making
Affair
Been
Dictated
Love Affair
Done
Want
Movie
Regardless
Them
Turned
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