Back Quote by James Salter

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan

I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and…

— Guy Maddin

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

— Rick Moranis

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and…

— Michael J. Fox

I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So…

— Agnes Varda

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

— Balachandra Menon

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

— Gulzar

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if…

— Joseph Fiennes

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

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

— Anurag Kashyap