How Do You Make the Transition From Acting to Directing?

At age 10, one of the directors on the Andy Griffith Show said he had a feeling you were going to be a director. At that time, actors didn't really direct very often. Roger Korman launched Scorsese, Francis Copeland, Peter Bogdanovich, Jim Cameron, Jonathan Demi. He gave me my first movie, Joe Dante. In 77, he let me direct a movie if I would star in it.