Maude Apatow Quotes

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?

I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people like Brit Marling getting things done, it lets me know that it's possible. It basically just tells me, 'Dude, get to work!' For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the end credits of her brilliant creation 'Girls.'

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure.