Scoot McNairy

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.

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 love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

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.

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

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

Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.