British - Director | June 21, 1944 - August 19, 2012
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
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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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I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.
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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.
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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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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.
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At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.
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Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
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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.
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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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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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