I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
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Related I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to ... DEREK CIANFRANCE I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out fo... SALLY SCHNEIDER I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker. DUNCAN JONES Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, b... DANNY STRONG I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school. TATYANA ALI When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for ... GILLIAN ARMSTRONG I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered a... QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. ... BAHMAN GHOBADI When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. PATRICE LECONTE I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young... MARIO ANDRETTI Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come... ATTICUS SHAFFER I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what ... COREY TAYLOR I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and... BILL PAXTON I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. Bu... 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NEIL MARSHALL I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas indu... JOSH FOX I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to... ADAM SCOTT In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudde... HARRY HAMLIN I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I lik... MARISSA MAYER I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to... SCOTT ADSIT I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such dee... PAUL HAGGIS I grew up in the late '50s. I came from a real place and needed to see the movies that were around t... ABEL FERRARA I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I lik... TAWNI O'DELL As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I ... GEORGE A. ROMERO For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, a... LYNN SHELTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre. PENNIE LILLIAN As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don&... TONY KAYE I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a... CAL RIPKEN, JR. At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be somet... FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world. SAMUEL DASH That was a critical match. I took it to him. 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BILL HADER I wanted to be a set designer when I was young. JUDI DENCH I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mo... ALTON BROWN I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and ar... ROLAND JOFFE I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm st... ZEDD Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who... ANNIE LENNOX Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv... , INSPIRED BY A. A. 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