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I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

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'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.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

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.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.