I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.
There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.
Some actors can draw from their own darkness.
I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.
They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.
It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.