Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

I want to write, act, and direct!

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

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've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.