Sam Levinson Quotes

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've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

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

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

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

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

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.