Top 38 Quotes by Tony Scott

About Tony Scott

These are some quotes by British author Tony Scott Director, who lived between July 21, 1944 and August 19, 2012.

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.

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

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Tony Scott

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

Tony Scott

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

Tony Scott

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

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

Tony Scott

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.

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.

Tony Scott

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Tony Scott

I have a short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

Tony Scott

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Tony Scott

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

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