Leslie Nielsen Quotes

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

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 guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?'

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.

I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I would love to try my hand at directing and even producing in some kind of way. Something about that intrigues me, but for directing I could completely see myself trying.