Filmmaking Ambition Quotes

I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

When I film my music videos, I always try to fulfill a part of my dream of being a filmmaker.