Tony Scott Quotes

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

I like making movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I made my first movie when I was five.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.