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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.