I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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 had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.