LaTanya Richardson Quotes

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.

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

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 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.

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 enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.

It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

I enjoyed playing the dual role of an actor and producer.

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

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

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

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I want to write, act, and direct!

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 would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

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

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.