Todd Haynes Quotes

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

I don't know what my ambitions are until they turn up really but I'd love to work with Shane Meadows, I know that much!

I had a lot of friends who dreamed of being actors, and as I hung out with them, I became more interested in it.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

As I got older, I fell more in love with movies and thought it would be incredible to someday be in one.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

Bollywood was never really the aim, actually. I mean, sure, you could argue that I could have done more films there; for sure, I could have.

I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group of friends who wanted to make it big in films, and that's when the audition for 'Malarvady Arts Club' happened. I got selected, and it opened the doors to my dream world.

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.

I was 15 when I read the script for 'Earth to Echo.' I thought it was amazing, and I couldn't think of turning it down. It's awesome for a kid from Brooklyn to have an opportunity to be on the big screen. And I had a great experience learning what the movie business is like. So, I'm glad I did it.

It was very important for me to work in an office environment because I wanted the knowledge and experience of working in a team. That would help me as a human being. But I have always wanted to do films. It was instinctive.

My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.