Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst. Campbell Scott More Quotes by Campbell Scott More Quotes From Campbell Scott 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 I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie.' And I always say, 'How OLD are you?' Campbell Scott twenties hair people I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously. Campbell Scott profession mother 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 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 waiting trying book 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 funny-things guy opportunity 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. Campbell Scott care problem people I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them. Campbell Scott doors people thinking I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining. Campbell Scott the-end-of-the-day ends rain 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 sleep morning night 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. Campbell Scott be-good environment thinking I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get. Campbell Scott enforcement littles needs 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 desert swallowing people 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. Campbell Scott attractive driven character 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. Campbell Scott littles mean children 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 our-lives hours two 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 sick too-much thinking 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. Campbell Scott mean children thinking 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 simple new-york thinking
