I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.
I grew up on films.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
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.
I was always interested in acting and writing, and I honestly thought I'd make my name as a scriptwriter one day. But somehow, I ended up in London in the early '70s, and that's where I had my David Bowie adventure.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.