Campbell Scott Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
• I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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 high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
• 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…
• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
• Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether…
• 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…

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