Dakota Fanning Quotes

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

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.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

Every aspect of filmmaking has lured me. Although I'm an actor now, one day, I'd like to direct a film. It's not as though I'm all set to take the plunge; I cherish this dream of calling the shots, but only after I groom myself with the right kind of preparation and the technical know-how.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

There are different reasons to make movies.

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

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.