Jamie Foxx Quotes

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

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do.

I've acted just to get to directing.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

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.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

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

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

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

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.