Tony Scott

“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 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.”

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

“We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.”

“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.”

“We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.”

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

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

“There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.”

“GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.”

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

“I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.”

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