Beau Willimon Quotes

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

I just want to write movies. And I try very hard.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I always wanted to direct and write a movie, but I thought that I didn't really have it in me. I tried to write fiction and humorous short stories, and some were considered successful, but it was always a huge effort for a small reward. I was always intimidated by the process.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.

There aren't enough good scripts.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!