Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
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I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.
My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.
Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy Citation, which is the exact same car that I bought from a guy in San Francisco called Sandy Boone. I showed up on set, and James Earl Jones was driving the car I had bought from Sandy for $250.
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.