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One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

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

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

There is a friend of mine that is very into the comic book world, and he showed me '300,' and I looked at it, and I said, 'Wow, that could be a great film.'

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.