Campbell Scott Quotes

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I make more movies than I see.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.