Vicky Krieps Quotes

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I enjoy films like 'American Beauty' and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.