Dougray Scott Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

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