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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

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 first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.