Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I want to write, act, and direct!

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I used to want to write commercials as a kid.

I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

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

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing, it would also probably make sense to be a producer and have some creative input from that perspective as well. Eventually, I do want to direct, but I want to get comfortable in those two jobs first. I want to dip my foot into this pool before I dive in I guess.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.