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My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.