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It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I grew up on films.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.