TONY SCOTT

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

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.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

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.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

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.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.