Cinema Quote by Rebecca Miller

I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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 wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was…

— Michelle Rodriguez

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for…

— Stephen Gaghan

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

— Patrice Leconte

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

— Paul Verhoeven

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have…

— Ava DuVernay

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually…

— Ruben Fleischer

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

— Simon Kinberg

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was…

— Francis Ford Coppola