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This Was In '79. I Got Pretty Restless There, Sitting Around With A Lot Of People Sitting Around Smoking Cigarettes And Talking About Films, But Nobody Really Doing Anything.

In Hollywood, You Tend To Get Pigeonholed To Certain Genres, And Then When You Try To Do Something Different, It's Not Always So Easy. Obviously, You Don't Want To Keep Repeating Yourself, All The Time. So, It's A Constant Struggle For Every Filmmaker And Actor To Find Something That You Can Really Feel Passionate About. It's A Profession Like Anything Else.

I Decided That, Somehow, I Had To Get Out Of There And Go To Hollywood. I Had Never Been To America.

I Loved Cutting Together Simple Commercials About Margarine Or Soft Drinks - All Kinds Of Silly Products - But I Tried To Make The Commercials Different.

I Was Making Films When I Was About 12 Years Old - Super-8 Films.