Tony Scott Quotes
I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
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It's a sickening feeling at the other end of you don't get the differential.
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I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.
