Tony Scott Quotes

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

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• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Romance

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lose
  • Souls
  • Romance

• The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Artist

• Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

  

  Doris Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Projects

• I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Fall
  • Goal
  • Romance

• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Romance
  • Agenda
  • Fragility

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Art
  • Passion

• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • Great
  • Person
  • Romance

• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Want
  • Friendship
  • Romance

• I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.

  

  Cassandra Danz
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Moral

• I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • World
  • Truth

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

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

  

  Tony Scott
  • Romance
  • Scripts
  • Desks