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I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

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.