Dougray Scott Quotes

"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Play)

"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Film, Historians)

"You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Imagination, Movies, Hell, Historians)

"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: War, Motives)

"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Corporate, Understanding)

"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Acting, Football)

"With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: War, People, Country, Now, Years)

"When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks."
- Dougray Scott

"When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Character, Circumstances, Feeling, Pain, Want)

"What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Money, War, Being, Iraq, Reason)

"The success of the film is down to the crew."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Success, Film)

"The point is to be involved in the moment."
- Dougray Scott

"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Feelings, Actor, Being)

"Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: People, Film)

"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Country)

"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Being)

"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Acting, Feeling)

"I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Development, Beginning, Film, Right)

"Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing."
- Dougray Scott

"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Chance, Charity, Golf)

"People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: People, Film)

"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Love, Film)

"In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Character, Skin, Want)

"It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Name, Needs, Project)

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Poets)

"It's nice to be asked to do good projects."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Projects)

"Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Acting)

"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Film, Focus)

"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Experience, Life, Love)