Campbell Scott Quotes

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

All great authors are seers.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.