Campbell Scott Quotes

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.