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Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.