Dougray Scott Quotes

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.

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.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

You couldn’t take football away from me, you couldn’t take acting away from me.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

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.