I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.
I'm an actor's director.
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
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.'
It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.