Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
Interpretation
The quote compares the filmmaking process to a marathon and commercials to sprints, highlighting their different yet equally fulfilling nature.
In this quote, Tony Scott draws a parallel between making a movie and running a marathon, emphasizing that both require endurance and long-term commitment. Conversely, commercials are likened to sprints, where the focus is on short bursts of creativity and quick turnarounds. Scott suggests that while the processes are distinct, both offer satisfaction in their own right, showcasing the diversity and complexity of creative endeavors in the film industry.
In practice
During a speech at a film festival to inspire aspiring filmmakers.
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history.
You live the life of a dancer. It is not your job, it is your life, and you have to love it so much to be able to take it every day for six days a week, sometimes seven.
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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