Campbell Scott Quotes

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.