I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

- Dougray Scott

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

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

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

- Dougray Scott

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

- Dougray Scott

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

- Dougray Scott

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

- Dougray Scott

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

Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.

- Dougray Scott

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

- Dougray Scott

My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

- Dougray Scott

It's nice to be asked to do good projects.

- Dougray Scott

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

- Dougray Scott

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

- Dougray Scott

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

- 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

I am an actor through and through.

- Dougray Scott

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

- Dougray Scott

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

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