Kelly Masterson Quotes

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.