John Polson Quotes

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?'

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

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

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.

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

To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

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

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

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

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

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.

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.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

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