I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.