Academy award Quote by Cuba Gooding, Jr

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

— Lauren Miller

The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to…

— Shane Carruth

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the…

— Anton Corbijn

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

— Peter Webber

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important…

— Phoebe Robinson

It's easier to greenlight your own films when you're not surrounded by other people aspiring to make films. You have to work a little…

— Matthew Porterfield

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do…

— Julie Plec

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts,…

— Alan Moore

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best…

— Alden Ehrenreich