Back Quote by Douglas Trumbull

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was…

— Rana Daggubati

I wanted to be a part of commercial cinema.

— Angad Bedi

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

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

— Harris Dickinson

I wanted corporate experience before I joined films.

— Soha Ali Khan

Films just happened to me. After coming to the industry, I became dedicated.

— Navya Nair

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and…

— Sissy Spacek

We did not see ourselves as remaking cinema at the time, at least not in my view. Myself and the other actors were not…

— Anna Karina

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

I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during…

— Ira Sachs

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.…

— Joseph Kosinski

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively…

— Tom Hooper