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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.