Cinema Quote by Sam Shepard Download Open image “I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.” — Sam Shepard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Movie Stuff Way Writing
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I did not have to struggle to enter into films but my real struggle started after I became part of it. — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film,… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
Early in your career, you feel like there is a formula, a path you have to take. You have to do this movie because… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.” — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
![“I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite right for it. And I didn't want a bad film to be made of the book, either a sentimental one or a creepy one, so I did a lot of, "No thank you." Then when the right filmmaker came along, yes…” quote by Emma Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d91/emma-donoghue-1499_book_i-needed-to-do-a-lot-of-saying-no-i-had_1728911.jpg)
