So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.
If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
I was 40 when I did my first movie.
I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.
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