Tony Scott Quotes
I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I look formidable.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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In the greenest of our valleysBy good angels tenanted,Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head.
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We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.
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As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
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I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
