Liya Kebede Quotes

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?