Claudia Cardinale Quotes

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I want to do movies but not talk about them.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

I always wanted to be in movies.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.

I want to do more films.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

I want to produce and direct and write one day.