I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director.
I love film, any kind of genre.
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