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I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.