'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some films change your life a little.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.
Film for me became how I related to everything else.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.