Cinematic Aspirations Quotes

I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I have grown up watching franchise-based movies like 'Star Wars' and read 'Amar Chitra Katha' and had aspired to do cinema like that.

Growing up, I wanted to make the kind of movies that would play in a multiplex, and those were the kinds of movies I ended up making.

I have realised that I am not cut out for the regular, commercial potboilers. I know I don't have it in me to do such films.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.

I'd love to do more independent films.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

I speak some Spanish. I would love to go make a movie in Spanish. I'd love to be in an Almodovar movie or an Inarritu.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

We're different people. Politics and films were an ambition for Arnold, but never for me. But I would say that his contribution in broad-basing the sport can hardly be matched.

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.