John Leguizamo Quotes

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

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

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of them was Neil Simon's 'London Suite,' which was based on his play. I also shot a film in Dublin, a little film with Bernadette Peters, called 'Bobbie's Girl.'

I'm beginning to think that I like the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do in front of the camera as I get a little bit older.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

I've realized what I want to do in life in that I just love being in front of the camera.

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.

'Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time.

At that time in my career, everything ended up moving so fast, honestly. Within the first five years of my career, I think I did two TV series and four big movies, and I've never been that hot again in my career.

I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.

I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.