America Quote by Jeffrey Wright

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

— Gabriel Mann

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

I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in…

— John Tiffany

I remember the glory days of film making. I used to go to the movies a lot.

— Orson Bean

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

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted…

— Jeff Daniels

I used to work at a Youth Theater and I worked on directing a variation of 'Beauty and the Beast.'

— Harris Dickinson

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She…

— Karl Urban

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by…

— Mike Figgis

When I joined the industry in the '80s, we as newcomers had a lot of work available to us. There were different types of…

— Mohnish Bahl

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in these two…

— Rituparna Sengupta

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

— Gordon Quinn