David Schwimmer Quotes

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.

I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

I want to do more films.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

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.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.