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My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies with him, and he would explain the story and characters to me.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.