Robert Downey Sr. Quotes

I like the opportunity to make films.

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

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

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

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

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

I'm just trying to do all kinds of films.

For me, movie making is not business.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I like to produce my own movies.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.