Committed Quote by David Antin

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

— Dreezy

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three…

— Dennis Cooper

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could…

— Ted Nelson

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And…

— Lindsey Stirling

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

— Paul Verhoeven

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

— Patrice Leconte

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

— Sebastian Lelio

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

— Danielle Steel

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

— Mark Webber

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

— Hamsalekha

I became a producer because of projects I wanted to pursue and develop as a director or actor.

— Sam Wanamaker