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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.