Scoot McNairy Quotes

#1. I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

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#2. I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

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#3. I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

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#4. I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

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#5. I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

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#6. To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

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#7. I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

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#8. I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

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#9. I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

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#10. In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

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#11. Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

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#12. I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

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#13. I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

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#14. I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

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#15. When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

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#16. I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.

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#17. To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

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#18. It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

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