Dougray Scott
Dougray Scott
Stephen Dougray Scott, better known as Dougray Scott, is a Scottish actor...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth25 November 1965
Dougray Scott quotes about
feelings looks actors
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.
acting labels method-acting
Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.
risk film bigger
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
growing-up understanding term
You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
dry documentaries film
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.
nice hands development
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.
maps scripts wonderful
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
areas fishing golf great industrial lots quite
Wonderful, quite idyllic, actually. It's very green, beautiful. Lots of golf courses, which was great for me. Lots of fishing areas, but lots of industrial areas as well, which weren't so nice.
attach financing quite
It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
bring closer immerse jumping possible required role terms
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.
feeling finds himself jonathan moment ordinary playing
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.
imagination movies portrayed thankfully
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.
great people
People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.