Elle Fanning Quotes

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

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

I've always wanted to make movies.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

I've been on sets my whole life.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'

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

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 think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

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

When I was in Middle of The Night, MGM came and offered me a contract and I said that when I got out of the play, I'd like to try it. I didn't know anything about making movies but I was certainly finding it interesting.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

I've always found it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium. And people allow me to do it, and there are things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other walk of life.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.