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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.

~Tony Scott

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

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Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

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

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The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: July 21st, 1944

Died: August 19th, 2012

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