Matthew McGrory Quotes

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

I made my film debut in 1973.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

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

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.