Clark Johnson Quotes

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

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.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

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

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.