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Campbell Scott Biography

Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is known for his roles as George Tunner on The Sheltering Sky, Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz on Royal Pains, Mark Usher on House of Cards, Joseph Tobin on Damages, and Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as well as numerous stage appearances.

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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Business, Jobs, Older, Opposed, Running, Thinking

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Failed, Hard, Laziness, Lazy, Potential, Work

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

Become, Children, Good, Like, Littles, Mean

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.

Children, Directing, Mean, Recognized, Spent, Thinking

Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what to do. I don't, especially in a work environment. You have a little formula yourself. But when I see a director do something I think, whatever he or she just said totally screwed that actor up and now they're worse. I'm never going to do that. I'm going to figure out something else. I want my movie to be good. And that's how it works.

Be Good, Director, Environment, Learning, See, Thinking

In one way they make the movie something you can handle because it's character driven and it's slightly off center. That's what's attractive, but it also has the potential of being cutesy and sappy. I am so uninterested in that.

Character, Driven, Attractive, Movie, Sappy

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Crazy, Years, Interesting, Place, Environment

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

Enforcement, Help, Know, Littles, Movies, Needs

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Desert, People, Place, Swallowing

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Door, Doors, Influenced, Live, People, Thinking

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

Funny Things, Guy, Kind, Opportunity, Serious, Stage

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

Begin, Morning, Night, Sleep, Time

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

Movies, New York, Obviously, Simple, Thinking, Work

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

Two, Hours, Our Lives, Shift, Seat