Top 38 Quotes by Tony Scott

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

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.

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 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.

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.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

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.

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.