James Gray Quotes

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

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

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

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

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'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

I'd love to direct more.

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

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 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.

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

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

I would love to write and direct.

I like to produce my own movies.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

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 love directing. I love creating things that I don't necessarily even have to be in. I like creating worlds. So I'm getting into writing movies and selling movies and television shows and creating worlds that then get to live beyond me.

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

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 moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

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

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.