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 never make a movie for my career.
It was just a different way of doing things, and I'm often criticized for attempting difference, which is misinterpreted as style over content.
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.
In the biopic scripts, we did address heroin, which was part of her life. To tell you the honest truth, those scripts didn't work.
Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.
Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.
Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different 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.
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.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
I have a short attention span.
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.