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
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
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.
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.
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.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
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'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.