22 Quotes by Dexter Fletcher

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual.

I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.