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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
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.
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.
I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.