I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.