I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.
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I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.
Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films.
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