Scoot McNairy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.