Jeremy Davies Quotes

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

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

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I want to make films.

I got into films by accident.

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.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

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 went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

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.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

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

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.