All Quotes

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
‐‐ Aleksandr Kuprin

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes.
‐‐ Brad Thor

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
‐‐ Simon Raven

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
‐‐ Euzhan Palcy

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
‐‐ Anne Dudley

I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.
‐‐ Claude Chabrol

I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.
‐‐ Stephen Hopkins

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.
‐‐ Tobe Hooper

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.
‐‐ Jill Kargman

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
‐‐ Larry David

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.
‐‐ Paul Quantrill

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
‐‐ Sofia Coppola

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
‐‐ Adrian Lyne

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a name for myself.
‐‐ Katie Cassidy

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.
‐‐ Martina McBride

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
‐‐ Joe Nichols

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.
‐‐ Alexandra Cassavetes

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
‐‐ Emeli Sande

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
‐‐ Ted Kotcheff

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
‐‐ Bill Condon

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
‐‐ Adam Ant

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
‐‐ Magda Apanowicz

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
‐‐ Bille August

I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi