Cinema Quote by Nithya Menen

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

— Kevin Macdonald

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope…

— Tom Rachman

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

— Walter Cronkite

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was…

— Anne Robinson

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

— Paul Verhoeven

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

I always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in Manipal; during…

— Nag Ashwin

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

— Jon Spaihts

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that,…

— Bari Weiss