Actor Quote by Andy Serkis

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

— Rana Daggubati

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be…

— Inbar Lavi

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working…

— Jeremy Irvine

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always…

— Mira Sorvino

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I…

— Neill Blomkamp