Chunky Pandey Quotes

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

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

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

I don't want to constantly be making sacrifices. It feels like it's really difficult for the films I dream about making to turn up.

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

My undergraduates, at first, get all starry-eyed about the idea of finding their passion, but over time, they get far more excited about developing their passion and seeing it through. They come to understand that that's how they and their futures will be shaped and how they will ultimately make their contributions.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

I used to set out and do a film and say, 'This is going to be the biggest film I've ever done.' But that's not the right approach. The approach should be the work.

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.