Alicia Vikander Quotes

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

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

When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it.

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

I got into films by accident.