Filmmaking Aspiration Quotes

I dream about doing a film about once a week.

I have grown up watching Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar movies. Naturally, I aspire to be a part of their kind of cinema.

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I realized that that was something people did for a living.

You know, 'Top Gun' was the movie I saw in high school that made me want to be a filmmaker. I remember very specifically coming out of the Century 21 Theater in Colorado from seeing it, and my friend saying, 'What did you think of the movie?' And I said, 'I think I know what I want to do for a living.' That's a true story.

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

It is difficult, but I definitely do want to make a film in Malayalam at some point of my life.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. It's not as though you do that enough and then graduate - you sort of need to make a conscious decision to work in a different way.

When I see a great film I do wish I was part of it, that happens.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

One minute, I really am in awe of filmmakers, and I want to be working in film, and then the next minute, I get the itch to get back on stage.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.