Ana de Armas Quotes

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

I'm going to make my own story for sure.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It takes a little bit more work, but that's what the production side is.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.