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By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I've acted just to get to directing.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.