Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

I never had any idea of going into movies.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

I had an interest in film, but I didn't want to go to Hollywood and make movies.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.