Mel Ferrer Quotes

I want to write, act, and direct!

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

Every actor wants to direct.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

I'd love to direct more.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

I just need good scripts, good films, and I am glad I am doing them.

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.