Tom McCarthy Quotes

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

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

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I always wanted to make movies.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.

I don't know why directing is not something I'm interested in.