Bill Hader Quotes

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

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 going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I would love to do different things, like behind-the-scenes work - just like Ron Howard!

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

My final ambition is to turn director.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

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.

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

I love making movies.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.