Desire Quote by Babette Mangolte

I went through the 1970s in film, and I was so inspired by what I saw and by filmmakers like Scorsese, Lumet, Spielberg and…

— Nia DaCosta

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

— Susanna White

In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as…

— Brad Anderson

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to go in…

— Pankaj Kapur

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being…

— Gillian Anderson

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

— Lynn Shelton

I wanted to make films before I wanted to be an actor.

— Harris Dickinson

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

— Mike Lookinland

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if…

— Sriram Raghavan

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me…

— Vin Diesel

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

— Martin Donovan