Jay Baruchel Quotes

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I'd love to direct more.

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

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

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I would love to write and direct.

As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.