Campbell Scott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
-- Campbell Scott

#Crazy #Years #Interesting
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
-- Campbell Scott

#Work #Lazy #Laziness
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
-- Campbell Scott

#Spiritual #Trying #Directors
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
-- Campbell Scott

#People #Swallowing #Desert
I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
-- Campbell Scott

#Children #Mean #Littles
What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
-- Campbell Scott

#Two #Hours
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
-- Campbell Scott

#Book #Waiting #Trying
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
-- Campbell Scott

#Opportunity #Guy #Trying
I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.
-- Campbell Scott

#New York #Simple #Thinking
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
-- Campbell Scott

#Editing #Cameras #Rolling
I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
-- Campbell Scott

#Thinking #Sick #Roles
I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
-- Campbell Scott

#Thinking #Doors #People
I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
-- Campbell Scott

#Needs #Littles #Helping
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
-- Campbell Scott

#Morning #Sleep #Night
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
-- Campbell Scott

#Running #Jobs #Thinking

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