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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.