Quotes About Ambition

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I like to produce my own movies.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I created, wrote, produced, and starred in my first-ever acting gig!

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was just stuff that I was dealing with.

I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I just want to be proud of it.

It takes a while to get a show on, and I've a number that have not yet been produced. I want to see all of them produced spectacularly before I pack it in.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

When you tell your kids they can be anything, you've got to be careful. I told my kids that, and I ended up with a music producer and an interior designer. But they're doing it.