And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.