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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.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

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

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.