Quotes About Aspiration

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

I never wanted to be a director.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.

My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

Those who say they're not ambitious are being disingenuous.

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.