Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

Never tell me the odds!