Tony Scott Quotes

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

I'd love to direct more.

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.