Victoria Abril Quotes

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I just need good scripts, good films, and I am glad I am doing them.

As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

I want to make films that people will say, 'That movie rocked!'

I had watched 'Stanley Ka Dabba' and wanted to be a part of Gupte's kind of cinema. As an actor, I am hungry for diverse roles and my sole aim is to learn as much I can from him.

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I really, really love directing films.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.