A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.
I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'