Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

I would like to balance my career, do meaningful cinema and also do fluff films.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing.

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.