Aimee Teegarden Quotes

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

I think my dream career would be to own my own production company and be able to write movies and star in them every once in awhile. Kind of like a Judd Apatow type of guy. That would be really fun.

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.