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
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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.
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.
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.
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.
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.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
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.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.