Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbellis an American actor, voice artist, director, writer, producer and author. A cult film actor, Campbell is best known for portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise, from the 1978 short film Within the Woods to the currently ongoing TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead. He also has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, and Bubba Ho-Tep. He has since made small appearances in successful films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 June 1958
CityRoyal Oak, MI
CountryUnited States of America
You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.
You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.
It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.
Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.
The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.
I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.
The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.
I see parody as another form of comedy.
'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.
Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.
If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.
The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.
I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.