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
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 think these films are little creative diamonds that give directors a chance at fleshing out story, characters and visuals in a short form.
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 always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.
I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.
Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.
So I sort of thought, 'OK, well, seeing as we're not completely telling her story, it gives me a sort of freedom to actually do what I want.'Â
I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.
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.
An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.
We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.