Latest Bruce Campbell Quotes from Interviews

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• I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity - killer. I don't get making sure you get every word right in some stupid speech just because a writer sat there and did it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Stupid, Thinking, Style

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Producers might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.

  Bruce Campbell

  Hurt, Worry, Guy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

  Bruce Campbell

  Brain, Workplace, Very Happy

  Source: dailydead.com

• If there's any elements that you see or don't see in the series it will only be because of some legal thing. Not all of the companies like each other. Some are like, "Don't use this, don't use that." We don't have control over the whole thing.

  Bruce Campbell

  Source: dailydead.com

• Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

  Bruce Campbell

  Source: dailydead.com

• We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

  Bruce Campbell

  People, Decision, Innocent

  Source: dailydead.com

• I like the TV format. I like how fast it is.

  Bruce Campbell

  Source: dailydead.com

• If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sock

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In Hitchcock's movies you can see the storyboards and that's cool. It's nice to see a filmmaker be that prepared. Most filmmakers today have their heads up their ass, they're not nearly that prepared. He obviously had a right to say this is what I want and this is how we're doing it, because he was ready. Some filmmakers show up on the set and they don't know what they're doing. So then everyone has ideas and that makes a bad situation too. Be a director who's completely in control and yet no one knows it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Nice, Today, Ass

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• As an actor, I look for the part itself. I look for the story and the role. If there's no money, but it's a good part in a good role, I'll still consider it. Basically, the worse the role is, the worse the story is, and the more they'll have to pay me. It's a simple correlation.

  Bruce Campbell

  Simple, No Money

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think none of the humor in the first Evil Dead was intentional. We weren't that sophisticated. We got more sophisticated with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness where you can start to manipulate the audience a little more, having more control over the medium instead of just trying to figure out how to do it. I suppose that's pretty normal with any craft. Every carpenter is better 20 years later.

  Bruce Campbell

  Army, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

  Bruce Campbell

  Art, Powerful, Humorous

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.

  Bruce Campbell

  Dog, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

  Bruce Campbell

  Fun, Having Fun, Ridiculous

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.

• I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Long, People

  Verbosity Magazine Interview, verbosity.wiw.org.

• I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Thinking, Simplicity

• You could have a bunch of good actors but they can't keep a relationship to save their lives. Everyone thinks it's so glamorous that Ben Affleck is sleeping with all these different chicks. It's only because he can't keep a single relationship because he's working all the time.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sleep, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.ign.com

• You might meet a guy who turns out to be the best guy you've worked with. They don't have to be some name brand person. I've met a lot of lower level actors and directors who were terrific; that are as good as any other A level director or actor, they just don't get the recognition. So I'm happy working with anybody who wants to show up to play the game and has a clue.

  Bruce Campbell

  Guy, Recognition, Clue

  Interview with Maxwell Clark, deadites.net. September 18, 2003.

• Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

  Bruce Campbell

  Attitude, Bullshit, Trying

  Interview with Maxwell Clark, deadites.net. September 18, 2003.

• Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.

  Bruce Campbell

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.maximumfun.org

• You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

  Bruce Campbell

  Acting, Together, Lit

  Source: www.deadites.net

• I'm not really that sick of Evil Dead. I can trace all roots back to The Evil Dead movies, so I have nothing against them. It's just that I've done more non-Evil Dead stuff; it's not the only thing I've done. There are some actors who have done a cult movie and they are forever going to be the Policeman #2 in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

  Bruce Campbell

  Evil, Sick, Forever

  Source: www.deadites.net

• There shouldn't be any censorship. This is America. There shouldn't be any of this freedom of the press, freedom of expression, but having said that, I think what's important is that people who make movies don't try to falsely lure people in to see the movie that don't want to be there. A kid should not see Evil Dead and we knew that.

  Bruce Campbell

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.deadites.net

• Cult films last forever. I have been in plenty of films that no one will remember, so it is nice to be in some movies that some people do, and that they pass it along to the next generation I'm meeting kids named Ash now.

  Bruce Campbell

  Nice, Kids, People

  Interview with Maxwell Clark, deadites.net. September 18, 2003.

• Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

  Bruce Campbell

  Doe, Pops, Western

  Source: www.empireonline.com