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I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things,…

— Tanith Lee

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I…

— Meg Cabot

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted…

— Marielle Heller

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

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

— Paul Verhoeven

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

— Harris Dickinson

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I…

— Sarah Pinborough

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook…

— Francis Ford Coppola

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater