My reason for getting into the film business was a Spider-Man comic called 'The Night Gwen Stacy Died' when I was a kid; it changed my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.