Dougray Scott Quotes

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I have a relationship with New Line, so I'm grateful to them for taking a punt on me - both for 'We're The Millers' and 'It'.

I spent a chunk of time in New Orleans doing the movie 'Free State Of Jones,' getting to work with Matthew McConaughey, and also did 'Concussion,' where I got to work with Will Smith.

I'd like to do a hundred different films.

I never thought that a time would come that someone will write a story keeping me in mind, or a producer will invest crores of rupees on a film that I will carry on my shoulders.

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.

I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

Though I have been acclaimed for 'Newton,' but my personally favourite is 'Gurgaon.'

'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could've imagined because the screenplay was so good.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I did not have any roadmap for entering Bollywood.

I do films in which I have an important character.

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made me fall in love with cinema. I can't imagine being in any other profession.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I want to do more movies, more adult roles.

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

I would love to work with the Coen brothers and Terrence Malick. I love both of their bodies of work so much, so I'm really interested in acting under their direction.

I am very happy that in the second year of my acting career in Bollywood I got to do a biopic.