Rebecca Hall Quotes

I've acted just to get to directing.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved with his recording and production company and also worked on some really great projects.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

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

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

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

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.