List of Campbell Scott Quotes

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 Are A Little More Like Your Children.

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.

I Make Little Movies, You Know, They Need All The Help That They Can Get.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Know It's Good When I See A Smaller Film Get Recognized Because It Means More Publicity For Them. Any Way To Get The Word Out, I'm Just Learning About This. The End Of This Distribution Sentence Is The Scariest Part, Which Is When You Start Producing And Directing. Now The Movies Are A Little More Like Your Children. You Now Spent Years Of Your Life And Then It Just Dumps In One Day And You Think What Happened? It Doesn't Always Happen.

Most Of The Time For Me, You're Learning What Not To Do, As Opposed To What To Do. You Never Know What To Do. I Don't, Especially In A Work Environment. You Have A Little Formula Yourself. But When I See A Director Do Something I Think, Whatever He Or She Just Said Totally Screwed That Actor Up And Now They're Worse. I'm Never Going To Do That. I'm Going To Figure Out Something Else. I Want My Movie To Be Good. And That's How It Works.

Do What You Want I Don't Care. That's The Thing To Say To An Actor. Most People Don't Understand That. Not To Manipulate Them. That's What You Say To An Actor. You Got A Problem With The Whole Environment In Doing That? Fine, What Are We Going To Do To Make The Scene Work? Now You Have Someone On Your Side. Now You Have Someone Working With You.

In One Way They Make The Movie Something You Can Handle Because It's Character Driven And It's Slightly Off Center. That's What's Attractive, But It Also Has The Potential Of Being Cutesy And Sappy. I Am So Uninterested In That.

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.