Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her. – Tony Scott
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That’s the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life. – Tony Scott
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently. – Tony Scott
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. – Tony Scott
I’m a plagiarist – I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. – Tony Scott
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. – 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. – Tony Scott
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
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. – Tony Scott
I think we’re lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we’re doing. – Tony Scott
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. – Tony Scott
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. – Tony Scott
There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance. – Tony Scott
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing. – Tony Scott
