I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.
I always wanted to make movies.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.