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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.