Jonah Hill Quotes

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

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

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.