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I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.