I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.
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Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.
I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on movie sets and was fascinated with the camera and behind-the-scenes work. I felt it would help my career as an actor if I knew all aspects of film.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
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