Amandla Stenberg Quotes

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

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

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I would love to do different things, like behind-the-scenes work - just like Ron Howard!

I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker.

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 wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

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 aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.'

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I would love to go to film school.