Tony Scott
Tony Scott
Anthony David Leighton "Tony" Scottwas an English film director and producer. His films come from a broad range of genres, including the action drama Top Gun, action comedy Beverly Hills Cop II, auto racing film Days of Thunder, action comedy The Last Boy Scout, romantic dark comedy crime film True Romance, submarine action film Crimson Tide, psychological thriller The Fan, spy thriller Enemy of the State, spy film Spy Game, action thriller Man on Fire, sci-fi action thriller Déjà Vu,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 June 1944
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life,
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
The hardest scene for me is always the scene when I'm dealing with performances, when I'm actually looking at the guys and hoping that I'm covering it in the right way and that I'm handling it in the right way.
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.
What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.
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.
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.
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.
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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.
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.
An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'